December 2006 Archives

Have you visited the Yarn Harlot today? I'll bet you have. But chances are you didn't see my comment (scroll down, way down). So here's the deal.

I think generous knitters deserve generous prizes (TBD), but to have prizes there has to be a game, right? So take a wild guess at how much you think knitters will have donated to MSF as of midnight EST December 31, 2006, and send me an email with your guess. Send it to hiredhands DOT ca AT gmail DOT com.

Now, I know this blog doesn't get much traffic, so if some of you more popular bloggers would get the word out that would be great. Oh, and if someone could let Stephanie know (yes, I did email her but who knows when she will see that) it would be good if she could not update the total again until after the contest closes (i.e. midnight EST December 31, 2006).

First, the WIPs:

A very colourful hat with double-layered concave ear cozies. I've come to where the decreases need to begin and I have to decide how I want to do it. Not a good bus project.

Next, the never-ending nearly finished bias blanket. Since the picture was taken I finished ball 5 and am part way through ball 6 of 6.

And now, some FOs:

This post is based on the premise that a pictureless post is better than no post at all.

So, what progress has been made? The socks were finished last week, received gratefully, tried on immediately, and declared to be Great. Yay!

The blanket has about 65% of another stripe/ball knit up. It is more fun now that I'm into the decreasing.

The tesselated hat is no more. It was reincarnated in a different pattern and with the perfected double-layered concave ear cozies, but it is not finished yet either.

The vest? Haven't touched it.

But there has been some other knitting.