Christmas projects and digital camera

I'm working on several projects for gifts this year. Socks, poncho, shawl, books marks, maybe a scarf or two. Everything I make this year will need to be quick since I don't have much time. As it is November is half over.

I wish I had a digital camera, so I could take pictures of my finished projects or chart the progress though pictures. But that will have to wait until I have more disposable income. Besides at the moment if I have extra cash, I'm going to going to use it on higher quality yarn.

Second pair of socks

I'm currently working on my second pair of socks. This time using the Lion Brand Blue Stripe yarn. These socks will be a gift however. The first sock is finished, so I just need to start on the second. When the semester is over I'm going to start the felted bag pattern. After that I may make another afghan.

Door Hanger nearly finished, another afghan

Well the door hanger is nearly done. I finished knitting both the front and back and I have done the duplicate stitch on the front. All that is left is to make the handle and sew the front and back together.

I am nearly finished with another afghan. This one is a dark red shade. I made this one as one piece, so it is taking a bit longer. But I prefer the look of it to the one that I had to put together afterwards.

Then I guess I'm going to start whatever Christmas projects I'm going to do. They will be small this year though. I have too much school work for large projects.

Finished the afghan and started the door hanger

I finished the afghan over the weekend. It has been washed and has all the ends weaved in.
Thank goodness it is finally finished. I started the door hanger. I finished the front, now I have to do the back. That shouldn't take long. I have little less than a month to work on it. I'm sort of doing the cheaters way. I'm going to use duplicate stitch for the letters instead of intarsia. I don't have time to learn intarsia at the moment. I tried it out once a year or so ago and it did not look good. I'll save that for after the semester is over.

Afghan and door hanger

I haven't finished the afghan yet, I became lazy before I left to go to the bridal shower and stuff out of state. I'll finish it this week.

Then I'm going to make a door hanfer for my sister. I found a pattern on Knitty which I thought would be a cute bachelorette gift that would use up some scrap yarn I have. I think I will make it in red and black, and then maybe modify the pattern by picking up stitches and doing a border in eyelash yarn. But I'll have to see if I have time, since I will be busy with school.