12.12.06
Holiday Knitting & Knitting Ethics 101
Picture me sitting at my desk, typing away on the computer. It’s all quiet in the office. I turn to my left and someone has left a box on my extra chair.
“MY YARN! . . . oops, sorry, that was loud.”
A very spontaneous outburst in the workplace. I was slightly embarrassed but then I excitedly opened the box of yarn from Yarnela. I was so happy to know that I can finish my cropped cardi - but then I realized I first have to finish knitting my Christmas gifts.
Why do I wait to the last minute to do these things? But it gives me a good reason to go to The Point over the weekend and sit with Alex and knit. While there I started a new knitted Christmas gift and she finished one of her Christmas gifts. (I wish I could show photos but everything is top secret until 12/25.) All the other knitters at the stored oohed and aahed over Alex’s project and several asked for a pattern. She’s so talented!
We also had a discussion on knitting ethics - if someone gives you yarn as a gift, and you knit this yarn up into a project as a gift for someone else, are you regifting? I laughed and said I should send this to The Ethicist. We decided it wasn’t regifting because you are creating something new out of the yarn.
But back to my cropped cardi - how can I schedule this in with all the holiday gift knitting that needs to get done? One gift is about 90% done - just needs fringe. A second project is almost 50% done. I haven’t started a third one yet - yikes! I’m just going to have to sneak in some knitting-for-me time and hope no one notices.