First, I knit a darling sweater for my niece Anya (who I'm sure is today having a rude awakening as she realizes there are no longer 8 adults around vying for her attention and catering to her every wish).
The pattern is Helena and has a really pretty design on the bottom that I tried to capture as Anya was running around:
Next are the 4 hats I knitted for the family that the Young Women adopted as their Secret Santa project this year. In the midst of my crazy work schedule and the holidays, for some reason I thought knitting 4 hats in 2 weeks was an awesome idea. Because I'm insane, I guess.The first hat for the dad was Tweed Hat, knitted in this super soft chunky yarn that striped nicely.
You can't really tell in the awful, awful lighting above, but the stripes are white, gray, brown and black.Next, I made the Chunky Slouch Hat for the mom, using the same soft chunky yarn as the above hat, but in turquoise.
I actually think I might have messed up the pattern a little, but it turned out cute anyway and the pattern is such that you can't really tell.Finally, I made a hat for each of the little girls. The first was loosely based on the Equinox Hat, which I previously made for a hat knit along on Ravelry, sized down for a little girl:
It's hard to see in the lighting, but this is a nice light pink fluffy yarn.The second is one I made up. It's a basic roll-brim hat, with my first attempt at using multiple colors in a row.
Someday I would like to get into colorwork, but I have a feeling I'm going to have to relearn how to knit in order to do it well, since I taught myself to knit and I know that I don't hold the needles and the yarn correctly.Finally, I knit a Hobo Hat for my assistant, since she's always been an enthusiastic cheerleader of the knitting projects I've shown her.
It's a lovely soft alpaca yarn in dark teal and she loved it.I planned to get a lot more Christmas knitting done, including something fairly ambitious for my mom that I've been planning for awhile, but I ran out of time. Next year...
