Okay time to be honest...

I'm lazy. Very, very lazy. And that's really the only reason why I haven't touched this blog. Not because I don't create or can't bother to think of something to write about. No, it's because I'm horribly lazy with photos. First, I need to find batteries if there are no batteries I have to buy them, (as a side note, I usually have rechargables but they've died completely and I can never think of it to buy new ones) then I have to locate the camera, and it isn't like when I lose my phone. I'll call my camera for hours and hours and never find it. Clearly, I need a pager or I could just leave it in the same place like, perhaps, near my computer. But that'd just be too easy. Usually when I have found my camera and by chance there are batteries and everything is ready to go, it's dark. I hate taking photos at night because I cannot for the life of me find my "indoor" setting on my camera, it's stuck on natural light and I'm fine with that because photos usually look best with natural light anyway.

So now I have to wait until it's daytime, which is quite a feat in itself because I'm as pale as they come and you don't get this pale being awake during the day. So I go back into my coffin, wake when the sun goes down, and knit all night. But there is the off chance that I'm up during the day, usually on a cloudy day like today, where it's not an ideal photo-taking scenario but it's bright and much better than the middle of the night.So here are a ton of FOs, there are many many more from holiday knitting, but unfortunately I never got to take a photo (re: above) because they were gifted away before I could snap them.

So let's start the holiday gifts with this lovely little top-down keyhole capsleeve number for my Aunt. When I think of her I immediately think of knit shells, it seems like she has an endless supply of them because I've never seen her in the same one twice. But she doesn't have one especially made for her. Of course instead of picking the colours I usually see her in, I went for something which is almost there but not quite. This was the first gift of '08. I had plans in April to begin, and then August I thought for sure I would start, then November rolled around and I saw the first Christmas commercial of the season. Something about Santa and an iPod which I wasn't too fond of but in the middle of I screamed "I HAVEN'T STARTED MY CHRISTMAS KNITTING!" and immediately rushed to finalize the list to "Christmas Gift Ideas" to "Christmas Gifts" and that is what truly symbolizes the start of the Christmas season for me. I started with this because I thought it'd take the longest, most people would argue that throws would, but when the math was done they're surprisingly smaller. Following the sketch, the math, and the planning I shopped the stash (which, was practically gone by the end of Christmas only to be immediately filled again, can't have empty stash boxes, can we?) I cast on, knit a few rows, put it down. Let it sit for a few days, worked until I reached the armholes (which isn't very much if you're knitting top-down) and put it down again. I didn't make anything else. I called it Wendy, jot down some notes, thought about making it a pattern and that was that. (pattern to be posted soonish)Finally December rolls around, I immediately start watching Christmas movies (and ONLY Christmas movies) to scare myself into knitting more. I managed to finish a gift a day, but was still knitting up until the 23rd.

My dad complains every winter that everyone in his family knits/crochets and he's still wearing the scarf his mother made for him eons ago. So he kept saying how nobody loves him, and he's just going to teach himself how to knit, and make dozens of scarves and not share them with anyone! So I made him three different scarves, but the "My So Called Brown Scarf" seems to be the only one that he wears which magically match the mittens my sister made for him. He's all about the matching.

My sister is on an eco-friendly kick so I decided to go with Everlasting Bagstoppers, and dishcloths. Note that I only have one photo of one dishcloth, and none of the bags. Of course. I made a pack of three cupcake dishcloths (not just the one) and a pack of three all-over not just for your dishes cloths. 

After about 20 days of non-stop knitting, of the "Oh, I forgot to eat today" variety, my hands are burning. So I decided to give them a little break (but not too much, don't want to spoil them) and started on the sewing portion. Again, only have a few photos. I made two knitting totes/notions bag, and mysteriously only have photos of one (of course). I made them both in a day, basic totes with a pocket on one side of the inside, and a small zip pouch for notions. But one of the stupidest things you can do with burning hands is lift a fairly heavy sewing machine off the ground, move it around a bunch on the table, then put it back. Not to mention the cutting. But I made it through, hands in tact and still knitting.

And thus concludes the small Christmas knitting update (with absolutely no photos), the denial stage of blogging, and hope of future posts.