Christmas Knitting Frenzy
The logical next step after finishing the very first project is to make something for everyone. The more, the merrier / tis the season/ etc.
The difficulty is defining everyone simply because I couldn’t picture some people wearing knitwear. Plus most of my friends (+ Cole’s family) live in Florida so giving them knitwear to keep warm would be useless at best and threatening at worst. So the first knit list was
- Mom: hat (✓ simple hat)
- Sylvia: headband thing
- Cole: scarf
- Karol: hat
- Dad: pillow?
but then kept evolving
- Mom: second hat because I gave her the first one already
- Jessica: also a headband but different?
- Great Grandma: mittens (that I started making before any planning because they seemed fun)
- Lucas: beanie
until the final Christmas Gift Spectacular tally
- Mom: hat and multi-color mittens
- Dad: pillow and double layered hat (not pictured because I didn’t finish until 12/23)
- Sylvia: white flecked headband
- Cole: scarf
- Lucas: striped beanie
- Jessica: plush headband
- Great Grandma: purple mittens
- Grandma Jo: pink/cream wool hat
- Boompa: slipper socks (not pictured)
- myself: green hat
- Karol: purple hat (pictured in action)
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From early November to December 23rd, I was knitting continuously, most of the time managing 3-4 works in progress at a time. I don’t necessarily recommend this to anyone, but I will say it was incredible practice and felt good to challenge myself. There will be separate posts documenting select projects included in the Christmas frenzy, just skipping the ones that either 1) didn’t work very well or 2) followed patterns already discussed.