skein: Post Christmas

I hope everyone had a lovely Christmas holiday! We've arrived back today, and I'm so pleased to be back. We spent Christmas (and the weekend before) over at the stashflat. I thought I'd get loads of knitting done, but forgot about the boring stuff, shopping and cooking and washing up. Drinking, late nights, even later mornings.

I started a new project as planned. Ali, a Kim Hargreaves kit.

Friday evening knitting was minimal.

Boring garter stitch. Have you seen how deep that garter stitch border is??

Saturday was not much better (but we had an afternoon of shopping as well)

I finally finished that garter stitch and then ... it's basketweave. Another no-no here.

Sunday I sucked it all up and got on with the basketweave.

Monday I reached the underarms. Decreases at last!

And finally, on Boxing day, I finished the back. It seems to have taken ages!

This is officially the stashflat knitting. I have so many things that I want to start, but I'm going to be more disciplined and stick to just a few (major) knitting projects. Socks don't count, of course.

Wednesday we packed our bags and went to visit Chris's parents. And the new baby.
Here's a Billy with his newest cousin. We spent the afternoon poking and prodding the baby, until her parents were forced to flee to the safety of Southfields. She didn't need any cardigans as the house was overheated, but was spotted wearing her Dale baby hat!

(Sorry, this had to be quick before the baby was snatched back by Oma)

The knitting over the past few days has been a scarf for Chris, knitted out of Jaeger's shetland aran, a wool/alpaca blend, lovely and soft. The pattern was from Myrna Stahman's Shawls and Scarves book (but I can't remember the pattern name - it's a fake basketweave).
Here's yesterday's photo. I'll try to get a daylight shot tomorrow - this yarn is dark and won't show up any sort of pattern after dark!

Now finished, which leaves me free to do a little more striped stocking stitch.