Heading home for the holidays later today, so will likely be Internet-free - I’ve probably surfed like the Internet by now at work, so this is likely not a bad thing. I’ll be off to Wichita for a few days, squeezing in some Chinese movies, and also hopefully finish up my round of Christmas presents for everyone. Then it’s off to Baltimore to visit my big sis and her new husband (who never updates his blog and really should by the way >:[). Cheers to Baltimore, land of crab cakes (which my sister unfortunately cannot eat, sorry sis) and funny accents! Here I come!

So far I’ve made 4 and 3/4 hats for Christmas presents since Thanksgiving, and that’s with finals and papers included. I am a hat machine! Maybe if I had spent that time studying a little harder and starting my papers earlier, I might have been a little less miserable last week, but it probably wouldn’t have made that much of a difference. So far I’m pretty pleased with the way the hats have turned out. Here’s one I knit for my dad, and 3/4 of the one I’m knitting for my brother:

My brother’s is the one on the right that’s unfinished. I decided to make his the inverse of my dad’s, so that they would match (aww…). They’re a mint green and off-white, not hunter green and yellow as they seem to be in this picture.

Hat making, though probably harder than making scarves (more stuff to do besides just plain knitting and purling), certainly goes a lot faster. Maybe I will tackle gloves next, as my current pair is getting a bit ratty.