Christmas is less than a week away, yet my Christmas knitting is more than a week from being finished. I have decided to just finish up what I can and call it good.
I finally blocked my Mom’s Christmas socks. I love how they turned out. I’m worried they will be a little big for her. If they are I suppose I could just make her a new pair and keep these for myself. 
I finished John’s socks. I like how they turned out. I think he’ll be very excited to have a brand new pair of socks. He loves hand knit socks, which makes it easy to make them for him. There’s nothing worse than knitting something for someone and not having them appreciate it.
I am slowly making progress on my Monkey socks. The second pair of socks I ever made were Monkey socks, and I haven’t made them sense. I don’t know why – the pattern is easy to memorize and it goes quickly. I haven’t been working on them much because I realized I had more Christmas knitting that had to be done. I’m even less likely to pick them up now because the last time I put them in the project bag I pulled the needle off of 1/4 of the stitches, so I have to fix them before I can knit again. Spoiler alert: this might be my new forgotten project. I should just put the project bag in the same tote bag as the cardigan that time forgot and put them both in a closet.
My mother-in-law loves felt slippers, so I make her a pair every year for Christmas. I finished knitting these yesterday. I haven’t felted them yet, so I still consider them a work in progress. Fun fact: I hate felting. It smells and it is time-consuming. Next year I might switch to slippers I don’t have to felt.
I’m making a replacement beret for Kirsten. She lost the raspberry beret I made her a few years ago. I couldn’t find any nice, bright yarn at the yarn shop in the 5 minutes I had before it closed, but I did find this Manos in Cotton Candy. I love the color and the squishiness of it.
Last week after I finished John’s socks I decided I would try to knit him another pair. That was a crazy idea. I didn’t consider that I had other knitting to do. I didn’t think about the fact that I can’t knit them when he is around and he was here all weekend and had Monday off. I forgot that we have plans many nights this week. So he might get these for Valentine’s Day. Or I might wrap them up as is and tell him they are coming.
What should I do with John’s in progress socks? Are you ready for Christmas?
Let’s start with John’s Christmas socks. They have been sitting in my knitting bag since I started the heel yesterday. Why? Because I discovered that I dropped a stitch back at the end of the ribbing. I’m so annoyed I can’t even look at it. I hope I can face it tomorrow, because I really need to get moving on it if I’m going to finish them by Christmas.
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