Merry Christmas!!!!

One sweater down, one with 2 inches of hood left and approximately 18 hours left until Christmas Day~~I think I may be good. (Edited to add: The hoodie is finished, ends woven in, washed, and blocking. Boy, I hope it dries! Have a fan running full bore right over it.) We're in the midst of the holiday insanity here: baking, shopping, visiting friends, and being visited. Such fun, but it really cramps the ol' knitting style.

We have our Christmas Eve open house this evening (it's 6 am Christmas Eve~~taking a break from finishing the hood of The Teen's hoodie). Then tomorrow we have Christmas breakfast and the usual Christmas morning festivities here with my parents, then it's off to the in-laws for Christmas dinner. Usually we visit Mr Fix-it's aunt and uncle before we head back to this side of the water, but I don't know that we'll do that this year. Tomorrow evening we will likely visit The Girlfriend's family.

The 26th brings a huge sigh of relief and a drastic increase in my knitting time. I've already cast on the Noro Striped scarf, but I think my needles are too large, so I'm going to rip out what I have and start again smaller.

Also on the knitting front, I taught The Girlfriend how to knit on Friday (at her request--I'm not pushy about the craft, but once I know someone wants to learn, I am more than willing to teach!), and she seems to be a natural. She spent last evening here.......knitting. So cool! I need some suggestions for good books for beginning knitters. No fluff--something she will use over and over. I learned to knit from EZ, so that is always a possiblity. I'll teach her to purl, get her to practice that a bit, and then maybe get her started on a ribbed scarf or something. Suggestions for good first projects? My first was a sweater, but I don't want to do that to her.

Well, the battery power is about to go on CD's laptop. So I want to take the time I have left to wish you all a very Merry Christmas. I will update the blog on the 26th with photos of the two sweaters and notes on what is on.........and off my needles. Yep, there's been more frogging, but more on that on Wednesday!

Merry Christmas!