Too busy knitting to post about knitting!

The holidays have been a time of busy-ness coupled with hustle and bustle.  I decided at Thanksgiving that I was going to knit each of my girls and their guy something for Christmas, so I got busy.  Liz got a green Homespun yarn slouch hat and Josh an orange acrylic yarn hat (orange being the only color one should knit in for Josh!)  Courtney got a pair of socks in bamboo and elastic  (Knit One Purl Too yarn, I think) and Chris now has a watch cap in Red Heart Team Colors yarn blue/red, which are Ole Miss colors (his alma mater.)  Kyle now has a pair of mittens in acrylic yarn (Loops and Threads Charisma) that can wash easily if they get dirty while performing all those homeowner chores that he will have now that they bought a house, and Hilary has the fingerless mitts and hat set pictured below.  The pattern is called Architecture, so it was appropriate for her.  Thankfully, everyone seemed to like their presents, or they have good manners!  Courtney put on her socks immediately and wore them all evening and the next morning, and all the others immediately modeled their gifts.  The hat may not be right for Hilary, who doesn't really wear hats, but I think she liked the fingerless mitts.

And if all those items weren't enough to keep me busy knitting, my prayer shawl group agreed to do some knitting for the St. Joseph Childrens Home and the Boys and Girls Club of Cheyenne.  The Childrens Home needed about 30 older boys caps/hats, so I got into the stash of Red Heart that my mom gave me when she quit knitting, and produced about 15 hats in varying sizes and boy-friendly colors.  When our group's organizer contacted the Boys and Girls Club to see if they had a specific need, the director said, "Oh, it would be great if you could make hats for all our kids!" When asked how many that was, she said, "About 160"  I nearly choked when I heard that!  But now that the Childrens Home hats are done, I guess I'll get started on the B/G Club hats.  This will give me the chance to do some hat patterns that I've been looking at for a while, mostly earflap hats.  So if I don't appear here for a while, it just means that I'm snowed under (figuratively) in hats.  And I have resolved to knit something for myself in the New Year.  More on that later.