Happy Knit Year!

I know I've not been attentive to my blogging duties these last few weeks, but I've been busy knitting, cooking, baking, wrapping, shouting, crying, falling over, bleaching, sneezing, and all that jazz.

So Happy New Year to everyone I didn't say (type) it to, and continuous felicitations to everyone else.

It was a slow start this year, but my knitting picked up immensely! My completed projects are:

• Humunga gloves - knitted for me, but using Connor's measurements by mistake, so oops.
• Amelia's prairie hat - knitted for my friend from the book she bought me for my birthday.
• Hoodlum's dad - a jumper for Aaron, with hilarious photos!
• Sackchap - Rob's SackBoy
• Maude (Head band with button) - using up the Lima left over from Amelia's hat.
• Cthulhu* - my amigurumi monster from the centre of the world.
• Dearly Beloved* - the poor skeleton bride amigurumi.
• Jackboy - Jack's SackBoy
• Ciara's cardy - from a lovely online pattern and in Sublime. Gorgeous.
• DylBoy - Dylan's SackBoy, immediately christened Mr Johnson (No idea why)
• Bamby Booties - For Finlay, and just really excellent booties, if I say so myself.
• Claude - also for Finlay, and a bugger to get the shaping correct.
• Lionel the Sackboy - for Amy to put in Finlay's room (Bit of a trend there, I think)
• Ayla Shrugged - Christmas present for my niece in Dubai/Kuwait, in a lovely cotton.
• Mia Shrugged too - Christmas present for my other niece in Dubai/Kuwait, in a lovely cotton.
• Flowery Headbands* - Christmas presents for my nieces in Dubai/Kuwait.
• Ciara's Poncho- Christmas present for my niece in Cork, in Big Softy wool, as it gets cold there!
• Quick Ribz - wrist warmers I made for myself in a day, out of scraps of yarn, which are lovely, and I can use them when I am driving!

* - crochet -yes, I know, I was amazed I managed any at all!

I have some WIP's:

• Sexxy - lovely socks in lovely Artisano yarn. Christmas sort of got in the way.
• Penelope's Ugg booties - just gorgeous in Sublime DK, from Let's Knit.
• Penelope's Fisherman's Rib Hat -  in Sublime DK, and just gorgeous. Made to use the tail end of the yarn from the Ugg Booties.

Then there were the UFO's:

• Hester - my cardigan from the book Amelia bought me - started this Sept 2010!
• Fluffy scarf - ongoing mohair scarf I can only knit in 20 minute stretches because it makes my nose and eyes explode.
• Freefall - ongoing lace scarf, which is my go-to when I am on a train or just waiting around.

And lastly, the disasters, which were thankfully few:

• Tija Mittens - colour-work, which I never really like, and finally frogged after being put in a cupboard for over a year.
• Baby ribs - a Fisherman's rib baby blanket in lilac cotton. It was an experiment, and I just never for the top correct. So that went to Oxfam.

All in all, I have knitted well and wisely this year. And that makes me happy. I have some WIP's to get finished as soon as possible. I have about 4 projects in my head that I need to match yarn from my stash to. And Dylan wants woolly jumpers, apparently. I may well get out the Singer again, and make him a couple of Fisherman's rib raglan sleeve ones, just to be going on with.

So if you want to see the photos for the items above, look back through my blog archive, or have a look at my flickr stream.

Thank you for reading my blog and hopefully I will have better attendance this year!