More Than Stone

For the past 3 months, I’ve been drooling over a sweater pattern. I finally bought the pattern and the yarn ($12 for the yarn!!), and I now can’t stop knitting this beautiful thing. In addition to that the weather has been simply gorgeous, so I’ve had no deep thoughts to share, nothing humorous, not one thought provoking idea. Just knit, purl, slip slip knit, and a couple of calls to my knitting mentor to ask questions….

I thought I was really preparing well. I began my knitting for Christmas in early November. Little did I know that one of the projects I chose would end up taking forever. I found an absolutely fantabulous Griffindor (Harry Potter) scarf pattern for my youngest daughter. However, this stupid thing must have taken 40-45 hours to knit. I chose to knit a scarf for my middle daughter, mittens for my eldest and yet, another scarf for my aunt. I’m down to one mitten to knit. 8 days before Christmas, so I think I’ll make it.

In the meantime, however, some of our “adopted” sons have also asked me to knit for them. Mittens, scarf and yet another Harry Potter scarf (which I can guarantee you I will adjust the pattern, so it doesn’t take eleventy hundred hours). I am afraid I will be knitting from now until my first social security check comes.

I have all the Christmas presents wrapped (except for the one lonely mitten waiting for it’s mate). However, even with my preparedness, I will be knitting like a crazy woman in an attempt to get these addtional items finished as close to Christmas as possible. My posting levels may be down, as my fingers will be bleeding and mangled.