Holiday knitting...

I have been plotting and planning all year, and hoarding away little finished objects so that I actually have some stuff to give away at Christmas this year... but there is never enough, so I find myself with several projects in the works, alternating between them and hoping to get them all done on schedule.

The first gift that is due is for our Secret Santa exchange at work... which is December 6th, less than 2 weeks away! So, I just cast on for a lovely ripple scarf using the Feather & Fan pattern from Knit Picks, and some fabulous Paton's SWS in Natural Pink. I am totally in love with this yarn... so warm and snuggly, wonderful color changes... just wish you'd get more yardage out of a ball. The picture doesn't really do the colors justice... the pink is a bit more vibrant than that, but the sage green is pretty close to the color. I'm using size 9 needles, which feel like gigantic tree branches after using my size 1 needles on socks!! Anyway, I bought 4 balls of yarn, and I'm hoping it's enough... I wanted to make a matching hat, which brings me to my next gift on the needles...

I've been dying to try fair-isle, because it always looks so cool when I see the pictures of it, and I lucked out on finding the Fake Isle Hat on Magknits. This is with some plain black yarn and a ball of the Paton's SWS in Natural Green. I've never made a hat before, so I'm quite pleased with how this is turning out. I used a 16" circular needle, but I need to switch to double points now. Little Newt is a big fan of the SWS as well... he continues to jump up on my lap and run off with it (which is why the ball looks like a total mess). I'm not sure how they can justify calling the color "green" when there is much more brown and coral in it than green... but it's still damn pretty, and that's all that really matters!

I have one ball left of this is my stash... in the Natural Geranium colorway... and I'm sure that'll turn into a hat as well... can't have too many hats in the Christmas stash! Hopefully, I won't have to try and warp the space time continuum to get all my holiday knitting accomplished.