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FO Friday: The Day After Christmas

It’s the day after Christmas! I know that it is Boxing Day, but in my house it is “Recover From Knitting Day”. It came right down to the wire (again), but I got all of the gifts done on time and into the mail or under the tree. The most fun for me is getting the feedback from recipients after my little knitted gifts arrive at their new destination. So, from the yarn stash to the Christmas Tree, here are the knitted items of 2014.

Knitted cat. — For my cat loving cousin I made a black and white kitty,

Cats! — Here he is in his new home on Christmas morning. Happy landings little guy!

Lace Mitt WIP — I was knitting lace mitts like crazy as we got closer to the big day…

and here are the same mitts this morning on their new owner's hands. :-) — and here are the same mitts this morning on their new owner’s hands. 🙂

Mitts — The mitts that I made for my sister arrived in time for Christmas…

Socks — and the socks for my daughter-in-law got done early Christmas Eve a couple of hours before I handed over the wrapped package

Ta-daa! Christmas gift success.

OK, there were some things that I planned and bought stuff for but didn’t make, but I have a head start for next year. Right?

Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas!

FO Friday: One Christmas Gift Done!

Ok, I have a lot of knitted Christmas presents going. I buckled down and got one of them done today. I offer for your viewing enjoyment the Christmas Cat!!

Pieces for stuffed knitted cat. — My cat MacKenzie was thrilled to model the start of this knitting project, a black and white cat for a cat-loving cousin.

Last night I completed knitting all of the pieces and steamed blocked them into submission so I could start seaming.

By this afternoon I had the body of the cat together. Not very appealing, is he?

Cat is done! MacKenzie still isn't sure about how he feels about him. — Cat is done! MacKenzie still isn’t sure he’s happy about this new friend

It will be snowing this weekend in Denver, so hopefully I will get those Christmas mitts done next. 🙂

Pattern: Four Knitted Cats by Kath Delmeny

WIP Wednesday: Christmas Gifts!

This is the time of year when my Christmas knitting plans are waaay too big for the time left before the big event. I always knit or plan to knit presents for everyone. As the days creep closer to the date I begin to triage and start presents that need to go into the mail first while holding local presents on the back burner. That’s how I ended up with soooo many works in progress this year. Here they are:

Knitted Mitts — I already have three pairs of lace mitts finished, and these are the ones that I worked on over the weekend. When I get the third pair done I’ll sit down and do all the thumbs at once.

Half knitted Hitchhiker scarf. — This Hitchhiker (exactly half done!) went on hold before I started the mitts as it is going to someone local. I’m getting a little nervous about this one’s chances of making it to full Hitchhiker status. 🙂

I still have to get another stuffed cat and a pair of alpaca half-finger gloves done too.

I hope to have some finished objects to show off by Friday.

Patterns:

Fingerless lace mitts are modified from the Sweet Pea Mitts pattern by Lisa Swanson
Hitchhiker shawl pattern by Martina Behm
Knitted cat is from the pattern Four Knitted Cats by Kath Delmeny