It's odd. I suddenly find myself smack dab in the holiday season feeling rather lost and bewildered. In a normal year I'd already have a few months of holiday knitting under my belt and would have been counting down the knitting days remaining. But this year...knitted gifts are a little thin on the ground. I've completed one hat, started in on a baby sweater, and I've got almost one of those purple socks finished. How totally unlike me! I feel like somebody should confiscate my knitter badge.

Hattity hat hat hat*

To be fair, I promised myself that this year I would not push myself to the edge of exhaustion by knitting ten bajillion gifts, and I am absolutely on target to meet that goal. But it's strange, because it turns out that the last minute panicked knitting frenzy is a bit of a tradition for me, and it doesn't quite feel like the holidays yet because I'm not surrounded by spreadsheets and half completed knitted goods. Seems I need to work on finding my happy medium.

Anyway, tonight I was going to blog about the hat I finished over Thanksgiving, a modified Gnomie that I made for the wee nephewling (who is getting less and less wee by the minute), but I seem to have forgotten my camera's memory card at work. So instead you get a little bit of a ramble through my brain and a photo of one of last year's unblogged Christmas gifts. Enjoy!

*{Koolhaas, for my BIL Ross, knitted in Rowan Magpie Tweed Aran (discontinued), in a long-forgotten shade of reddish-orange.}