...and satan is his name!



Kevin and I are constructing an anti-Xmas Xmas CD for our car trips this holiday season. "Christmas with the Devil" by Spinal Tap is at the top of the list, as is Eric Idle's "F**k Christmas," a bunch of spoofs from South Park and the Venture Brothers. Such a CD gets us more in an Xmas mood than anything else.



But that's not the point of today's post. Today, I have knitting!!!



Stop laughing! I know you thought I had secretly quit knitting, and it has sort of felt like that to me too. But now that I have some break time, I can focus on some knitting. Of course, I have no yarn for any kind of big project, so I'm just knitting little stuff like this:





That's a neck warmer of my own design. After wearing the Yarn Harlot's "Pretty Thing," I have come to like the idea of the neck warmer, but hers doesn't work so well. Well, it isn't her pattern's fault, I think it was the yarn that I used. The cashmere is just too delicate and stretches and flops and just looks like a big, old mess.



So I found a nice skein of Classic Elite Premiere in the stash. I used this Frosted Blue for the ruffle scarf (way back in 2005!). I cast on around 100 stitches and knit a 4x4 rib. Then I moved the 2 left most knit stitches over 1 purl every row until the 4 knits came back together. Then I twisted them, knit 2 rows, twisted, knit 2 rows, and then started the 2 knits traveling again.



I had a false start a few days ago on this which was ripped and restarted on Monday afternoon. I just finished it up a few hours ago. Total knitting time was probably about 6 hours (if not less). It feels good, looks nice, and will be WARM! I'd show you an in-action picture if I weren't still in my pjs from this morning!



Merry X-mas all!!