Wednesday List: five things I've knitted recently

I have an assignment due on Monday next week, so I've been undertaking some serious productive procrastination. That is: I've been knitting, a lot.

It's so fab when my friends have babies because I can knit furiously with no fear of the recipient disliking the woolly in question - babies have no choice but to wear what they're put in and to enjoy it. I imagine that any children of my own will have stories about being wrapped in wool for their entire childhood. I anticipate scarring the hypothetical children with woollens.

Five things that I've knitted recently:

♥ A handspun blanket in Nepalese yak and NZ wool (I spun all the yarn in this too)

Half finished

Fully finished and being blocked on the kitchen table (worst photograph ever)

♥ Merino possum baby booties

♥ A new hat for Nat (her last one was stolen from the university library - a curse on the dodgy mo fo who did that)

♥ Tiny little sweater!

♥ Baby scarf (inspired by the scarf that Jessica's son Ralph was wearing when we had coffee the other day)

At the moment I'm knitting a hat for Shannon to replace the one he left in the rental car at Auckland airport, and for the first time in the entire time that I've been knitting I'm hanging out to make something for myself! Amazing. It's much more fun to make something for yourself when you're not the only person to knit for.