Kitty Blankets

Photos of kitties on blankets:

Photos of kitties as blankets:

(My arms are not long enough to take it all in at once, so there are two photos. But when it is cold, and I sit long-wise on the sofa, they sometimes do this. It is nice, but makes it difficult to knit.)

I may well finish the first sleeve of my Abalone today (shown here before I cut the first steek). This means I may actually finish it in February, as was my goal!!

I'm also hoping to finish the February Lady Sweater I started this week- I'm maybe 1/4 of the way down the body at present, but it's knit on large needles (size 8!), so it's going quickly. I think February is an excellent month to knit an FLS, don't you? 

Then I realized that if I'm going to keep up with my goal of being on time with all gifts this year, I'll have to get going on Marie and Daddy's birthday gifts. I have a scarf started for Marie (actually 2), but one is such amazing mindless knitting and would be so boring to push and get done, that I think I'm going to keep it for when I am brain-dead. The other may be finished in time, but most likely not. 

But then I bethought me of the Lopi from Iceland, and the robot mittens! Clearly, I should start a new project, lined mittens, instead of finishing a wip.

For Daddy,  I have a pair or two of socks in progress. The pair I plan to finish needs to be completely frogged, since I've changed my mind about the cuff, but I think that I can finish in time, especially if one interprets "in time" loosely, as "in time for the next time I see them" rather than "in time for their birthdays." This gives me an extra two weeks- plenty of time!

My other knitting goals for the year are to buy much less yarn (none bought so far this year!! Yarn given to me does not count. But I'm still working through some stash, so that's good!), to finish as many wips as I can, if not all of them that I went into the year with, and to finish some large projects for me. The year is going quite well so far!

Back to my knitting- I've got to rescue the sweater before Gino settles down on it!