the blue blog archives: holiday all stars

I'm back! A few lingering little blog problems (comments, oh comments, where did you go? and did you take the archives with you?), but my host is still recovering from a weekend hacking incident, so let's give him a break. And let's talk final holiday knitting!

I may not have finished all my holiday knitting (one baby sweater still overdue and two sock creatures still left to be sewn), but lots of the knitters over at WWLAHKG did! Go check out all those stars. And gifts!

So that means it's time for me to give away some knitgifties, which the holiday all-stars can use for some January selfish knitting or earmark for gifts for next year. And they are:

two balls of Knitpicks Wool of the Andes in Pumpkin
(this would make a great hat or mittens!)

two balls of Knitpicks Essential sock yarn in navy
(looooove this sock yarn - soft, washable, beautiful colors)

I'll be pulling names later today from among the holiday knitters who earned their star, so update me right away if you finished all your holiday knitting. And then tune in next time for the winners!

Note: No need to post your comment multiple times. Comments are coming into the system (you can see the comment count increase if you refresh this main page), just some program glitch is causing only the first comment of the day to show up. My master webmaster is working on it!

posted by alison at 9:30 am | in knitty little christmas

Comments

yeah gifts!
i love the regia africa..it calls my name.
i went to africa this summer and i'm obsessed with socks..hhm...maybe i'll get lucky

Posted by: ann-marie at January 8, 2007 11:21 AM

oooo *drooling over the hipknits*

Posted by: erin at January 8, 2007 11:24 AM

I am one of the Holiday All-Stars, although my accomplishments were modest: one sweater for an 18-month-old, one Muppet-fur scarf, and the one-cable scarf from ONE SKEIN.

Posted by: Gina Beirne at January 8, 2007 12:38 PM

Glad to see you back- I missed you this weekend. Myself I still have three Christmas gifts to finish--I totally over extended myself this year.

Posted by: Birdy at January 8, 2007 12:47 PM

I would love any of the wool you have up there. Although, I am especially fond of socks!

I love your blog, keep up the great work!

Posted by: Stacy at January 8, 2007 12:58 PM

Thanks for letting us know your opinion on KnitPicks Essential. I've been thinking about trying it out, but after a bad experience with Patons Kroy, I've been wary of inexpensive sock yarn.

And thanks for running the knitalong again! It was so fun to see everyone's projects, and such a great motivator!

Posted by: Marlena at January 8, 2007 1:07 PM

Tech guy was up v. v. late last night -- or shall I say early this morning? -- but was pretty happy with his progress. If you haven't dropped him an e-mail telling him about the comments and archives, you should!

Posted by: shannon at January 8, 2007 1:39 PM

Hi Alison - I did finish mine with the pair of socks last week. I'm 8 of 8! Yay!

Posted by: Tammy at January 8, 2007 1:43 PM

I finished all - one sweater, two pairs of socks, one pair of mitts and a scarf!!

Posted by: britt at January 8, 2007 2:09 PM

Show yarn and we come out to comment. ;) I finished my knitted gifts-2 pairs of gloves for my mom and socks for my daughter's doll. Just wait until you start knitting and sewing for dolls-FUN!

Posted by: kimberly at January 8, 2007 2:13 PM

I love the Regia Yarn. In Germany we have to famous sock yarn companies: one is Regia and one is Opal. I already knitted a pair of socks out of the africa yarn, but in differnt colours. You can see them here: http://katjaquilt.blogspot.com/2006/12/socks-no-5.html

Posted by: Katjaquilt at January 8, 2007 3:10 PM

I finished all of my holiday knitting, although it wasn't too hard. I just had 2 pairs of felted clogs to do for my sisters.

Posted by: Kristina at January 8, 2007 3:47 PM

Look at all that yarnie goodness. Yum! :)

Posted by: Samantha at January 8, 2007 3:52 PM

i finished all my holiday knitting. whew. clogs. done. hats done. even the ones i forgot about til the last minute. an dnow its time to start all over again!

Posted by: lesley at January 8, 2007 4:01 PM

I finished all my holiday knitting. 6 (!) bags and a pair of thrummed mittens. Whew! lol

Posted by: Emily at January 8, 2007 4:27 PM

Hey hey!! I finished mine too! But there is no star next to my name. (Vanessa) on teh KAL. I even managed to finish an extra feverishly knit pair of fetchings on Christmas eve, woohoo!! So glad to be a part of this KAL this year, thank you so much for hosting it!

Posted by: Nessa at January 8, 2007 5:47 PM

Ahh, gold star for me too! I'm so glad that all the gifts are given and now I can go back to knitting for moi! I'm drooling over the HipKnits yarn!

Posted by: Sophia at January 8, 2007 6:52 PM

I didn't know there'd be prizes! yay!

Posted by: krista at January 8, 2007 7:22 PM

LOVE THE "at mitt" as modeled by da BEAR. Cute. And how fortunate are those who earned their stars. Maybe another year.

Posted by: KnittingPainterWoman at January 8, 2007 10:54 PM

Finished! Let me see... 7 hats, 2 scarves, a baby blanket... I think that's all. I've been knitting less than a year and knew I couldn't over-extend, plus I started these in August or September. I do admit to finishing the baby blanket minutes before I wrapped it, though, LOL.

Posted by: Carla at January 9, 2007 7:59 AM

Urp... I'm embarrassed to realize AFTER I posted that your contest is only for your KAL members. Apologies. Profound ones.

Posted by: Carla at January 9, 2007 10:47 AM

ooh, what goodies, shame I didn't do any holiday knitting this year, however, I do have some Essential in my stash, thanks to SIL.

Posted by: Orli at January 9, 2007 12:14 PM

has the regia sock yarn found a home? Anne Brown

Posted by: lisa b at January 15, 2007 8:27 AM