Knitting Knews

I wish I had some cool finished object pictures, but I don't. All I want to do is sew, and all I have been doing is knitting. It's just one of those things. If you have a long project that you really need to finish, you don't want to work on it. You want to go do something else. That is where I am. I am tired of christmas knitting. I want to do some me knitting or some me sewing. Well, sewing at the least. I do have a christmas sewing project for my sweetie, but it ran short on fabric. Very annoying. I must have just guessed at how much fabric I would need. Have to get more.

I whittled down my list of christmas knitting to one more bear. I am currently working on a pillow that is BORING. There is no way I could take the achy fingers that the bunny caused. I need more socks and there aren't going to be more socks until the second bear is finished. The first one was really fun to knit, too.

Somewhere recently someone (probably the add knitter) mentioned that they were seeing a lot of fair isle knitting in the knitting magazines. I think they were right. I 've been seeing a lot of short row shaping, too. Previous to the bears, I think most of the shortrow shaping I have done was in sock heels. I really enjoyed all the short rows in the bear because it never gets boring. You aren't doing the same thing row after row. It keeps your mind alert. Some times you do want something you don't have to think on. Something that can relax you and be mindless.

Anyway, I am going to be thinking of all those people out there who don't give themselves the christmas knitting headache until I finish mine! Those smart people...... (oh sure, their kids won't be delighting in handknit bears on Christmas morning, but they ARE knitting something fun right now)