Christmas Stockings and TS Hanna Knitting

Just a quick note to let y'all know how things are going with the great 2008 Christmas Stocking crochet-a-thon. (I know everyone out there is on the edge of there seats right now!) I have finished 3 more of the stockings, so I am now up to 7. I only have 5 more to finish before Thanksgiving. I should be able to do that, as long as I don't get to caught up in new knitting projects. I am really happy with these last 3. I found some really interesting cable stitches and have managed top work them into the stockings. I usually have to start the stocking 2 or 3 times before I get the pattern down right. Which is probably why I can only get 2 or 3 done at a time before I have to take a break and work on something else.





Since Hanna came through last night and this morning, I decided to start another knitting project (that and I was tired of the stockings). I am working on a knit scarf for a co-worker's girlfriend who is going through chemo/radiation treatments for breast cancer. She has been going through this most of the summer, so I figured she could use a bright yellow, pick-me-up scarf. I had some baby-yellow yarn from an aborted (bad choice of words? correct meaning though) baby blanket and decided to use that. I had started 2 or 3 blankets with this yarn and could not get any of the patterns to "work" with it. Y'all know what I mean, sometimes the yarn and the pattern just don't work out. So I am now happily knitting away on the scarf. It should be completed in a couple of days. I already have a couple of new "architectural" elements added due to a few boo-boos on my part!