the blue blog archives: christmas countdown

Still working fast and furious on the mutssjaals. Check them out! I managed to finish the knitting on the first one at Knitsmiths yesterday and immediately started the second. As you can see, I decided not to make the second mutssjaal exactly the same as the first. I'm using all the same yarns and even the same stripe sequence, but have begun it in a different place. So they should be matching but not identical. That's usually how I like to dress the boys too.

At this point, I'll save the darning in of ends until after Christmas. I'd just like the boys to have something to open on Christmas morning. My mother went out and bought everything on the boys' Christmas wishlist, leaving very little for "Santa"! So it's more shopping and speed knitting for me today! Best of luck to all of you out there who are also still knitting Christmas gifts!

posted by alison at 9:24 am | in mutssjaals

Comments

Go Alison Go!!!

Posted by: Teresa at December 23, 2002 9:54 AM

Alison, great work on the mutssjaal. A quick non knitting question. What program did you use to make your button?

Posted by: Amy at December 23, 2002 10:25 AM

Would your mother like to go do my shopping for me? I really have to get this done today. And I still have things I want to bake and maybe get in a little knitting.

Posted by: Larry at December 23, 2002 11:05 AM

Alison you're making great progress on your Mutssjaals! It's been fun watching them grow. Two days ago I started knitting hats for my teenage sons for Christmas. The beauty of knitting for boys (at least my boys) is that I can knit right in front of them and they don't have a clue that I'm knitting something for them. My husband, on the other hand, noticed what I was doing and strongly hinted that he would also like a hat for Christams ... 3 hats in 4 days should be doable!?

Posted by: Nona at December 23, 2002 11:58 AM

Thanks for the encouragement folks. Nona, that is so funny about boys not paying attention. I know what you mean! Good luck with all those hats!

[And Amy, the program I used for my button was "the GIMP" which is just the standard image editing program that comes with the Linux operating system. Yeah, we're freaky non-Windows people here.]

Posted by: alison at December 23, 2002 12:55 PM

You are making such fast progress with the mutssjaals (the knitting part anyway). Look forward to seeing how they look on your sons.

Posted by: Melissa at December 23, 2002 3:55 PM