New Year’s Resolution and the Perfect Christmas Present

Ok guys, it has come high time for me to get out of this slump regarding my updates, or lack thereof. I have officially resolved to update my site at least once a week! I hope it turns out, I just need to find that dang SD card for my camera! Anyway, here’s what’s been going on lately.

1. I FINISHED the huge stole I made from Knitty.com. I made “Danica”, but doubled the width in Noro silk garden. It is huge, gorgeous, and warm. I’ve thought about giving it away, but I think I need to keep this one.

2. I’ve Acquired a set of Knitpicks Options(!!!) and the set of beautiful wooden DPNs for Christmas! My husband totally rocks!

3. Speaking of the perfect Christmas present, this year I got the best present I’ve ever gotten in my life! He was reluctant to give it to me, he explained that there was another part that he had no idea when it would be available, it might be next year, for next Christmas maybe. I was so curious, I finally persuaded him to let me in on it. He pulled out this bag I recognized from Twist and assumed it was yarn for me! I opened it up and there were 3 skeins, one white, one red, and one green, 2 knitting needles with some cast on stitches, a small piece of attempted knitting, and his boyhood Christmas stocking. I had mentioned to him that I’d like to duplicate the Christmas stocking because as we all know, things made by Grandmothers and such people are priceless artifacts, and it would break my heart if anything happened to it. Well my sweetheart of a husband had decided that he would make the stocking himself! I assumed it was his Grandmother’s knitting which would have been special enough, but when he told me it was his, the tears came to my eyes, and I cried with such adoration for a person who took such an interest in something that I love that he really has no interest in himself. I put his first piece of knitting on a stitch holder and I’m planning to frame it. How cute is that? I have truly never had such a perfect Christmas present in my whole life. We sat together for a while as I tried to teach him the long tail cast-on. He finally got one stitch on his needle, and said “that’s enough for tonight”. ^_^ AWW he is too cute! I told him it took me a very long time to learn the long tail cast-on, and it can be frustrating, which I believe he agreed with. I asked him if he just wanted me to cast on for him, but he politely refused, saying he wanted to do it all himself. How could I not love that?

So there it is folks, my perfect Christmas present! Merry Christmas to everyone, remember that it’s not over until the 6th! So leave up the decorations and remind yourselves that there’s still plenty of reasoning to buy yourselves lovely Christmas presents! ^_^