Well, it’s holiday time and the mug pictured above (a gift from my daughter) gives you a pretty good idea about my current mindset. Since everyone is always clamoring for one of my knitted items, I decided to leverage those requests into some knitted Christmas gifts.
One of the biggest problems with this is that I’m not a very speedy knitter. You would think that after all these years of knitting I would be able to churn out woollies like some sort of a machine, but that is just not the case. I also have a touch of ADD, causing me to get a few too many things on the needles at once causing a certain amount of mental overload.
In spite of all that, knitted gifts are a great time to raid my stash which grew substantially fatter last spring with the closing of a great local yarn store. As a fiber junkie it’s impossible for me to resist a yarn sale, and they are a great opportunity to stock up on luxury yarns I can’t otherwise afford. One of my projects is a pair of fingerless gloves knitted from some yummy Louisa Harding Kimono Angora which is super expensive, but perfect for a small project. The hand painted Debbie Bliss SoHo is another one of those yarns that I could never afford to use for an entire sweater, but makes a gorgeous hat. And of course I have to mention the hand dyed Suri Alpaca I purchased from one of my favorite online yarn stores…too pricey for an entire sweater, but as a scarf it’s just heavenly.
At the end of the day, it’s a win-win for everyone; my friends and family get luxuriously warm handmade gifts, and I get to justify my yarn habit. I’m going to go knit something now.
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