Um, here are the little things I crocheted as decoys. Forgot to paste the url in.
Hey those are pretty, Purl.
This is what I have done so far (or almost). A tea cozy, a hat and a yet to be felted purse.
Solfy, I would love to see that scarf - what TLC you put in! It reminds me of that old Cheers episode where Sam gave Diane some thoughtless gift, and defended himself that she “just gave him a sweater,” then she gives a long diatribe about how she spun the raw wool, consulted a professional to determine his best color, dyed the wool, and knit it herself!
And I agree - your brother (btw, always nice to see a guy knitting, even if he’s slow!) should at least do the hat or something. Or grab Last Minute Knitted Gifts and throw it at him.
Miss Purl, the doily is beautiful. Makes me think about Anne of Green Gables, and how they competed to see how many hope-chest doilies each girl had.
Flutterby, I adore that tea cozy - such beautiful yarn!
As for me, all my mittens are done, and **C3 **and I had a fun knitting night. I was lucky I was out with her, or I might have cried or thrown my scarf across the room when I realized I just needed to start all over again. Luckily, it’s the Airy Scarf from the aforementioned LMKG, so it’s almost done, and I should be able to finish the other over the weekend.
Although my daughter said to me this morning, “Mom, I’m tired of you knitting all the time.” (I wasn’t knitting, I was making her breakfast, I promise!)
I’ve been teaching myself to spin yarn, and I made my first art yarn yesterday. Freckafree sent me some wool, and I spun it and felted it and made Cheeto Yarn.
I broke my (dominant) arm this morning, so I won’t be finishing the hat in time. 
The other stuff is done but I could have done them with one arm too.
Oh, no! Ferret Herder, you poor woman! What happened? Was it ferret related? Are you OK otherwise?
Flutterby and Unauthorized Cinnamon: Thank you both very much! I haven’t crocheted much since I was 12 or so, and it’s so much faster than knitting for doilies. So. Much. Faster.
Fell in my driveway; I was talking with my husband about how slick it was, with snow over ice, and was being careful; in a flash I was suddenly on a hurting rear with a very sore arm planted at my side - the heel of my palm was what struck, but the ER doc thinks just one of the long bones in my arm (the radius) broke near my wrist. We’ll see what the ortho doc thinks on (I hope) Monday.
Thank you! It’s the Noro Kureyon, which is really quite lovely though they have a nasty habit of tying bits together (towards the end of the skein) and skipping a whole colour.
Oh no! I’m sorry to hear that. 
Feel better.
Crocheting is so much faster… which is why I am holding off a little on the crocheted finger puppets (Velociraptor really needs puppets, he puts on shows with his little people currently) and attempting to knit fast.
Feel better, Ferret Herder! We hateses the ice.
I kind of guilt tripped myself into knitting some poinsettias. I found this pattern and knit up a shiny green star which immediately said “hey, I look like poinsettia leaves, idiot, not a star. Use the red yarn!” so I’m making a smaller star in red to go in the middle. Then I’ll do it all over again so that I have a matching set to go out to two different recipients.
These are because apparently I cannot let my husband just give his grandparents heifer.org gifts, even though the grandparents have expressed appreciation at not receiving more crap to find a home for. I know they like hand made Christmas ornaments, and will be able to hang them somewhere then store them with the rest of the ornaments. Pretty quick knit, and they’re going to look great. But still. We need to ship stuff Monday, so today I decide I absolutely must do this? Brilliant.
The upside is I bought some Suzanne ebony circulars in size 3 a while ago and haven’t had a chance to use them yet, and they are perfect for the red star part, so that’s a treat. They’re so smooth and lovely.
I haven’t finished my basic k2p2 scarf and found a goof in the pattern that I made whilst watching the latest Harry Potter. There goes 5 rows.
:smack:
I crocheted an octopus for my daughter–it was going to be for Christmas, but she has claimed it already. Now she’s got me making a dinosaur.
I pieced toss pillow covers for my dad’s wife months ago; they match the pieced wall hanging she asked for so it was a no-brainer.
I didn’t plan on knitting anything for anyone this year, but somehow Fetching mitts for my sister appeared on my needles. I only have thumbs left to knit and I don’t fly home 'til Wednesday, so that’s under control.
And yes, it feels really odd not to have knit/quilted presents, but packing to move took precedence.
I just got all the supplies to make Ukrainian Easter Eggs. I used to do it but long ago lost the tools and so on. I’m going to make a few as gifts (assuming they come out well) this week.
This is the first of the poinsettia ornaments. So happy to have found a use for shiny green yarn I got in a swap. It’s perfect!
That is adorable!
The snowstorm today has cancelled the Xmas party that I was suppose to have given the K2P2 scarf too, that wasn’t finished, is now on a repreive. That means I have 7 days to either finish it or start 22 new projects…
Thanks! Naturally, I vote start 22 new projects. Or call it a neckwarmer and call it good 
I just sorted my stash, finished one project (er… “sure, this lace scarf I haven’t worked on for a year and a half is long enough… time to bind off”), ripped another out entirely, and now I feel virtuous because I only have 4 things on the needles. That one of those things is a baby blanket for a now six-month old is irrelevant, right?
Absolutely!
glances nervously at his own baby…er, strip of lace. For a child who’s due Dec. 23
Only four things on the needles? Hm, let’s see. One, two, three, four, five, six – actually, I’m not doing too badly. One of the six is a felted bag that I’m only a few I-cords away from finishing, but I ran out of steam. I’ll finish it one of these years, I suppose. Another is a lace shawl that I hit a spot where the pattern simply does not come out right; I’m trying to decide if it’s me (since I’m left-handed, I knit patterns in reverse) or if it’s really a mistake in the pattern. In any case, I need to resolve it one of these years because I put too many hours of work into it not to.
But I’m not knitting Christmas presents this year. I’ve been knitting up a stash to go craft-showing along with FairyChatMom, who does pottery, and really don’t have that much built up. By next fall I’ll have a great assortment, I expect.
Also, I just caught the sock bug, which may be fatal. I don’t know why I’ve been afraid of socks all these years – I’ve knitted for many years, including stuff on DPNs, and never had any worries. But for some reason I was afraid of socks. Thanks to an amazingly helpful book I recently purchased, I’ve finally worked my way past my fears and just finished my very first sock the other day. And it even fits me perfectly, yay! There’s nothing like step-by-step photos to make it easier, is there?
What I really would love to do is win the lottery so I can sit around and knit all day every day. I can’t imagine anything more fun!
Because we have no faith that he will actually finish a hat and mitten set. He’s not what you might call reliable as of late.
Also because I love an excuse to cast on something new.
The hat and one fingerless glove are done (except for end weaving) and I’ve only got two fingers to go on the other glove. I’ve got two skeins of yarn left, I may do a scarf as well. It’s yummy yarn and quick and I’m having a blast! Normally I shun anything on needles larger than 5s, so the fast gratification is a nice change of pace.
Aaaalmost done a second purse. Which is good, because I need to felt it and dry it tomorrow to be gifted Thursday.
Thank goodness for movies that I can knit through (I watched Die Hard 2 last night, I love Christmas movies )