Saturday
Jan022010
Just in time.
Saturday, January 2, 2010 at 7:24AM
Please tell me I'm not the only person who finishes gifts at the last minute.
Tell me I'm not the only person who finishes gifts at 7:00 on Christmas Eve. And that I'm not a total loser who fails to leave adequate time between the actual day the gifts are to be given and the day the gifts are completed.
It's a scarf. For my hubs.
I love these gift tags from Knitterella. I love that they say things like, "Yes I did make it, and no you can't return it." They just add a certain amount of cheekiness to an otherwise stately gift.
It only took me eleven months to knit this scarf. Eleven months of knitting this scarf almost entirely in the car. (At stoplights! At stoplights!) Knitting at stoplights doesn't make sense unless you live in an area like mine, where it takes 25 minutes to drive seven miles because of the traffic and stoplights. (Sadly, I do not exaggerate. One Saturday in December it took me one hour and forty minutes to go twelve miles.)
I knit it from two skeins of Charlotte Bronte Worsted in the Bella colorway. The pattern is the Irish Hiking Scarf by Hello Yarn. The resulting combination is warm and easy on the eyes. (See my previous blog post about this scarf here.) Two skeins of worsted weight yarn made this scarf about eight feet long, which is perfect for a guy who will never fuss with fancy scarf tying methods and prefers to just double the scarf, thread the ends through the loop, and go.
I washed this scarf and laid it out on clean white towels on the floor of the studio to block and dry, and it was ready just in time to wrap and give to my kind and generous husband, who makes all of my yarny shenanigans possible.
Because my husband is kind and generous and deserving of handknit items, does that make the person who steals this scarf to wear as their own because they love it so much and it matches everything a really bad person?
Don't answer that.
Tell me I'm not the only person who finishes gifts at 7:00 on Christmas Eve. And that I'm not a total loser who fails to leave adequate time between the actual day the gifts are to be given and the day the gifts are completed.
It's a scarf. For my hubs.
I love these gift tags from Knitterella. I love that they say things like, "Yes I did make it, and no you can't return it." They just add a certain amount of cheekiness to an otherwise stately gift.
It only took me eleven months to knit this scarf. Eleven months of knitting this scarf almost entirely in the car. (At stoplights! At stoplights!) Knitting at stoplights doesn't make sense unless you live in an area like mine, where it takes 25 minutes to drive seven miles because of the traffic and stoplights. (Sadly, I do not exaggerate. One Saturday in December it took me one hour and forty minutes to go twelve miles.)
I knit it from two skeins of Charlotte Bronte Worsted in the Bella colorway. The pattern is the Irish Hiking Scarf by Hello Yarn. The resulting combination is warm and easy on the eyes. (See my previous blog post about this scarf here.) Two skeins of worsted weight yarn made this scarf about eight feet long, which is perfect for a guy who will never fuss with fancy scarf tying methods and prefers to just double the scarf, thread the ends through the loop, and go.
I washed this scarf and laid it out on clean white towels on the floor of the studio to block and dry, and it was ready just in time to wrap and give to my kind and generous husband, who makes all of my yarny shenanigans possible.
Because my husband is kind and generous and deserving of handknit items, does that make the person who steals this scarf to wear as their own because they love it so much and it matches everything a really bad person?
Don't answer that.
Reader Comments (12)
That is just gorgeous. Did Chris like it? What did he say? :)
It's gorgeous - I'm sure he loves it, when he gets a turn to wear it!
Gorgeous!! And when you "borrow" it, you are just testing wearing it for him. That is all.
Amazingly beautiful!
You're not alone! I was right there with you, scrambling last minute with gifts - my mom's French Press Slippers had to go in the oven (after the pumpkin pie was cooked) to finish drying after felting, or she would have wondered what the wet package was! My 4 yo still talks about Mommy putting the slippers in the oven...
Husbands love when you borrow their scarves - then it smells like perfume when they get it back and everyone thinks they borrowed it from their wife! ha ha
It's beautiful! 8 feet long! Wow! Great job Sharon!
Very pretty. I love the Irish Hiking Scarf.
Heck, finishing on Christmas Eve is plenty of time. I was weaving in ends in the car Christmas morning on the way to gift givign!
Love the scarf! I don't see why you two can't just share it. :-)
Is your nial or auspicious close in color to this?
I of course now want to make one. It's so lovely.
Gorgeous!!!!
My DH does the same 'tying' method wit his scarf, lol :)
Love the scarf! Beautiful colour.
Interesting article. Were did you got all the information from... :)