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I finally finished the basketweave scarf I was making for my dad's Christmas present (I wrapped up the half-completed scarf--with a stitch keeper so it wouldn't unravel--so he could open it on Christmas, then commandeered it back so I could continue knitting)! I actually cast off and wove in the ends on Friday(?) but I hadn't gotten around to posting it yet.

( scarf pictures under the cut! )

I'm halfway through my felted tea cosy! It's huge right now (I could probably wear it as a hat--and I've not gotten to the decreases to make the dome yet!) and I'm hoping it'll shrink down enough when I actually felt it.

( tea cosy and yarny goodness )

who_knits is having a Good vs. Evil knit-along, which is finally going to motivate me to make penwiper's Extermaknit. I'm also planning on finishing my cuddly TARDIS and possibly making a pair of Rose's Doomsday mitts (because they're made of awesome). Of course, I need to learn how to cable first.

And yesterday was my first day at the local library--after some financial stuff and a tour of where the offices and such are upstairs (the library used to be a big gorgeous house), I got to shelve things. ^_^

~Michelle

I really should find/make a few knitting icons. Or more pretty non-fandom ones. Anyway, on to the point of this post . . . knitting picspam! Well, four pictures. Is that enough for it to count as picspam?

I think I mentioned wanting to start Be Speckled in a recen post, yes? Well, I cast on a few days ago! This is my first time using double-pointed needles; the ribbing was a bit tricky, but the regular knitting is quite fun. ^_^ I'm using Caron SimplySoft Heather in Denim Heather for the ribbing bits and James C. Brett Marble in Granite for the body. For some reason, I've taken to calling them "mitteny mitts." I don't know why.

( Mitteny mitts! )

I've also been working on a scarf for my dad's Christmas present. And by this I mean I need to frantically finish it. I'm using the "Men's Scarf" pattern I found in my copy of I Can't Believe I'm Knitting!--it uses a basketweave stitch pattern which I rather like. The yarn is Lion Brand Wool-Ease Heather in Mushroom.

( scarfy goodness )

In non-knitting, but holiday-related news, my mom and I were cooking or something with the radio on and "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" was playing. It came to the "He sees you when you're sleeping/He knows when you're awake" bit and she remarked that that line is a bit unsettling when you think about it. I then proceeded to recite a bit of the Zagreus poem (for those not in the know, this comes from the Big Finish Doctor Who audio plays featuring the Eighth Doctor and is "Zagreus sits inside your head/Zagreus lives among the dead/Zagreus sees you in your bed/And eats you when you're sleeping." ::shivers::). And then I saw this. Hee! (Possibly more amusing is finally realising that those are squirrels on Jack's jumper.)

And now I should probably go back to knitting more of my dad's scarf . . .

~Michelle

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