In over my head...

I still have one exam to take. It's on Tuesday, and I'm spending Saturday evening in the Library. Am I studying? Not really. I write a bit of outline, and then I start thinking of my Xmas gifts. I was really proud this year that I had a good head start. Now with Xmas less than two weeks away I have only 5/11 of my slated projects finished. Half of the remaining 6 have been casted on with a few rows of progress.

Those 6 are fairly quick pieces. I have two more Star Crossed Slouchy Berets to finish, two Jacques Cousteau hats, and two Crofter Cowls. The berets are for friends, the JC hats are for my dad and grandpa, the cowls are for my grandma and my grandpa's girlfriend. I've been so resistant to the cowl craze because something just keeps screaming "Dickie!" "Dickie!" whenever I see them. I do think that old ladies could like them, especially when they are knit out of malabrigo.

The thing that I am proud of this Christmas is that I've been able (that is if my plans for my UFOs work out) to reduce by stash by 13 (!) skeins. I do confess though that I did have to buy three skeins of Manos del Uruguay, but those were directly for gifts. And in the spirit of full disclosure, I also bought 2 skeins of Twinkle Chunky, but those are so I can finish my Twiggy Sweater. So the net amount of skein reduction to my stash was 8 skeins. Not too shabby. I wish it was more! Knitting from the stash is great to get that stuff out and in a knitted item, but I did run into so dilemmas of forcing a yarn into a project that I wasn't happy with. The yarn either wasn't the best choice for the project or for the recipient.

I hope that after (or during) the holidays I will have a bunch of picture posts of all my FOs. I've been holding out on posting some of the FOs this year because I lack good pictures.