I'm woefully behind on keeping this thing updated on what's actually going on in my life/brain, but I tried writing something about it and the internet ate it, and I'm too tired to do it again.
So instead I will tell you that the last time I saw![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
magister I gave him a hat I knitted after promising him one, having seen him out bare-headed in all kinds of wind and rain and cold. He says he likes it because it covers his ears. I should have made him one a bit bigger so it'll still do that when his hair gets longer, though!
And today I finally gave![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
greyeyedeve her Christmas present. She told me she had a scarf-with-a-hood thing she really loved but had forgotten on a bus or something. Figuring that I know how to make scarves and that I know how to make a hood by sewing a rectangle together at the top, I rashly offered to knit her a replacement. It didn't get done in time for Christmas, but it kept me busy during a miserable January and now I've finally gotten around to bringing it to her. She exclaimed over it, says she loves the colors (it's a self-striping yarn in blues, reds and browns and I love it too) and she declared she was going to wear it around the house, which she proceeded to do all the time I was there drinking tea and chatting, and I smiled every time I looked up at her in it. I tried it on when I'd finished making it to see how it'd work out (of course I'd not sullied it with the involvement of anything like a pattern...) and it was amazingly warm and cozy! I'm tempted to knit myself one now, but I don't have enough yarn yet.
Plus this week has drastically increased the number of knitted gifts I've given (mostly I just make hats and scarves and mittens for myself) and both have been so well-received that I am still happy every time I think of these things.
So instead I will tell you that the last time I saw
magister I gave him a hat I knitted after promising him one, having seen him out bare-headed in all kinds of wind and rain and cold. He says he likes it because it covers his ears. I should have made him one a bit bigger so it'll still do that when his hair gets longer, though!And today I finally gave
greyeyedeve her Christmas present. She told me she had a scarf-with-a-hood thing she really loved but had forgotten on a bus or something. Figuring that I know how to make scarves and that I know how to make a hood by sewing a rectangle together at the top, I rashly offered to knit her a replacement. It didn't get done in time for Christmas, but it kept me busy during a miserable January and now I've finally gotten around to bringing it to her. She exclaimed over it, says she loves the colors (it's a self-striping yarn in blues, reds and browns and I love it too) and she declared she was going to wear it around the house, which she proceeded to do all the time I was there drinking tea and chatting, and I smiled every time I looked up at her in it. I tried it on when I'd finished making it to see how it'd work out (of course I'd not sullied it with the involvement of anything like a pattern...) and it was amazingly warm and cozy! I'm tempted to knit myself one now, but I don't have enough yarn yet.Plus this week has drastically increased the number of knitted gifts I've given (mostly I just make hats and scarves and mittens for myself) and both have been so well-received that I am still happy every time I think of these things.