Luxury Gloves and a Diagram of a Heart

Mum and Dad gave me some really cool yarn for Christmas and I've started on a pattern from "Beautiful Knits for Heads, Hands and Toes" which I've wanted to try ever since I got the book. It's not much, but I'm working in between times while I'm revising.

I've been getting creative with my revision as well. I had friends round last night who loved my diagram of the heart.

I'm going to their house for New Year tonight. It'll be the first year I bring in without at least one family member. Last year I was at Bigbury-on-Sea with Tommo. The fireworks we see this year will probably be a lot less special, because we are expecting them. The ones last year were impromptu and amazing.

Crimbo, and all that jazz!

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Long time no update. It's Christmas Day - Happy Christmas! It's a bit unusual blogging on this festive day (my family certainly probably aren't impressed), but hey, I'm an adult now and can do what I want, right? And anyway, the men are all off in the pub between the main course and Christmas pudding. I have over-indulged a bit on mulled wine and am feeling incredibly sick, with the meal sitting like lead in my tummy. Yuck.

It was a very Crafty Christmas, and I went a bit Camera Crazy (my Facebook photo album was going to be called "Corrie's Camera Crazy Christmas Captures" but I decided that was lame). Anyway, I unveiled the pillow case and scarf I've been knitting for Gran and Dad respectively. The pillow took like three months to make, and I started the scarf last night at 8 pm. It took six hours. Ouch.

The others that I made for Christmas that I haven't blogged about yet are a Harry Potter illusion wall-hanging for Lucia, and a hot-water bottle cover for Kathy. These were completed over a period of about 3 months, which was intense, especially the Harry Potter thing.

I got back from Finland and Denmark a few days ago, and will write a blog all about it from the diary I kept at some point.

Tiger Scarves

I'm pretty pissed off at the moment, but I swore to myself when I started this one that I wouldn't turn it into a rant machine. So I'm not going to do that. Instead, I'm going to share a photo of the tiger scarves I knitted for my boys. They took a long time, but it was worth it.

I got the pattern free on Ravelry and I recommend it, it's really good. The reason the scarves took me so long to make is because of the stripes - sewing in all those ends was a real pain in the backside. I did the pattern to match the hats shown below. Tom is on the left and John on the right. They want me to do a penguin one with flippers and a bow-tie so that I match them. I might well do it.

I'm meant to be knitting a hat for Ben's cello, to match our Innocent Smoothies hat. Will be doing that soon, but I have to work out how to use DPN's first, and I'm not sure how I'm going to fit everything in.

The layout of this blog sucks at the moment, but there isn't a lot I can do about it. I'm meant to be revising for an exam in a couple of weeks. Just wanted to talk.

I'm going to Copenhagen on Friday, followed by Helsinki. Excited! This is also the last day of term. I'm not sure when I'll be back to London - almost certainly before New Year. Christmas is generally a creative time of year for me, so I'm going to be kept very busy at home, returning to London to get my revision cap on.

Ciao for now.