Knit like the wind!

Woohoo! Nice job - we knew you could do it - keep up the Hurricane Knitting tempo and you'll finish in no time. :) Fingers crossed for you that "no time" means "in time" for Yule or whenever your gifts will be exchanged.
Have a festive holiday season with that lovely family of yours. And ps - PLEASE POST UPDATED PHOTOS OF LUIS?! We miss him. I'm speaking on behalf of the Blog because I don't think they'll mind. lol :)

I interpreted the title as "Like the Wind", or as to wind one's fiber. I am either too knitterly or just daft. Maybe both.

Yes! about pins with the little balls on them! The ones with tiny flat heads always seem weirdly pointy on BOTH ends.

You go girl!! I need some of your knitting mojo so I can finish up my last three projects.

Please, please, please post pictures of the gingerbread tomorrow! They sound so cute, and the blog would really love to see them!

A stroke? Dude, please don't. I wouldn't find it entertaining at all.

I suggest T-pins for blocking. A very affordable "luxury" for blocking knits....so much easier. And blocking wires. The best $20 I ever spent!!! OK.... back to knitting......

I'm so very impressed how you actually do knit like the wind!

And am so very sad that not only is it too cold in T.O. to knit while walking, it's too cold to knit while waiting for public transit... which can be quite a lot of waiting time especially on those very snowy days.

Clearly, you people have far more willpower than I do when it comes to Xmas treats. I have to make an effort not to have much of that sort of thing around, as it inevitably calls to me from wherever I happen to be in the house. Solution: non-edible Xmas baking, i.e. baked ornaments for the tree.
P.S. Can't wait to see the hedgehogs!

The hedgehog is one of favourite cutters (although I thought they were porcupines - they are versatile cutters and can be whatever we want them to be) and this year we will be adding the Tardis, Weeping Angels and Daleks! Very festive!

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I mean to correct it of cause!!!!!!!

God job getting ahead with the knitting... as for presents, I would love to get a bunch of those mats... However...did you hear the old wife tale, that you are not supposed to give pins as a present? (anything that punches, or cuts- if you do you ruin a freindship...) at least that is what my mom (who was a great knitter BTW) thaught me. If you do give them, ask for a penny as payment...

My BF actually made a blocking board for me, you can find the instructions here if you like:
http://werk-schau.blogspot.de/2013/05/blocking-board.html

Would you share your gingerbread cookie recipe? I'm sure you have already been asked but my poor search strategy did not locate it. It looks like a tried-and-true recipe!

Those French Press slippers are a great, quick gift. Everyone got a pair of those from me a few years ago. In fact, maybe it's been long enough that they need a new pair? Hmmmmmm.

I can't tell you how excited I get to read your Christmas knitting posts!

Please show us how you felt those slippers! I've had the pattern for ages, but I'm scared to wreck my washing machine!

that pile is dwindling each time I see it. you are the fastest needle in the north.

Depending on the cookie cutter hedgehogs can be turned into Santa's through decoration.

Good job, Sam! I think hedgehogs and t-Rex make nice additions to the cookie pile. And I know what you mean about the "Oh, I could knit this and this and this...." about one week before Christmas! Sheer craziness!!

I really think you'll make it, if nothing "blows up," etc. between now and Wednesday. Isn't it nice when our children can and will actually help?!

You know, I bought that French Press pattern when you raved about it and have never been able to make them. The designer's blithe instructions to make the second sole (or some part) by reversing the directions for the first made my eyes cross and resulted in a lumpen wad of yarn and needles hurled at the wall. The oh-so-sweet designer then blew me off when I asked for more complete instructions.

Another day and you have NOT addressed the question of the gingerbread moose.
I'm in sunny (albeit cold) Florida and moose cookie cutters are not readily available here. Also hedgehogs...

Knit like the wind, Steph! You can do this! Only one request and that is would you please take a picture of Sam's cookies? I'd love to see the non-holiday ones.

You continue to be a braver Christmas Knitting Woman than I! "Little Red Riding Slippers": finished and sent. "Shepherd's Fingerless Mitts": finished and sent. One of those darned ruffle scarves: finished and sent.

But...2 neck warmers, a slouchy hat, a glitzy scarf and a pair of socks (in Madelinetosh, no less)? Still In Process....

And cookies? Made at the end of November and frozen!

you're making more progress than me... my progress consists of paring down the knitted gift list :)

Also, look at it this way.... if you put the french press slipper materials and patterns in your carry on bags, you have ANOTHER project you can work on while flying and then next giftmas, while you're baking with your girls, they can be going through either the felting or be sitting there all wrapped up.... head start on next years gifts :)

I have the foam squares. They are wonderful.

Great progress! I've never thought of hedgehogs as Christmas-y, but they are super cute. You've now made me hungry for gingerbread. First I'll search your blog to see if you've shared your recipe, then I'll google one.

Now I know what's wrong with me...I am having the same reaction to knitting Calorimetry. So fast and so cute! All my friends want them, so I am sneakily cranking them out two at a time!

That is awesome progress. I need to spend my time on blankets. I want to start a sweater soon.

That is awesome progress. I need to spend my time on blankets. I want to start a sweater soon.

Gauge: 8 stitches equals 4"? Wow!

Valeria at 5:55: try writing out the instructions for the second sole in reverse and see whether that makes it easier.

Any tricks on felting the slippers for people who aren't present at the time? I LOVE these slippers and have knitted 8 pair so far including several as gifts but I usually give them un-felted and we have a felting party with the recipient present for fitting. Just curious how you handle that part.

For blocking mats, anti-fatigue flooring is the same material as the foam tiles for kids to play on, except it's not as pretty and much cheaper. I think mine was about $1 USD/square foot.

My daughter LOVES hedgehogs. In your free time can you post a picture of the festive ones?
Note to self: get hedgehog cookie cutter

I just can't believe you can knit SO fast!

My husband gave me a big folding blocking board with a grid on it. I love it!! (and him, of course).

Oh Yeah! I forgot about the French Press slippers! I'll definitely get that pattern out for a last-minute gift. Thanks! And happy knitting!

My goal is to be done by the solstice. A few more days. . .
Keep us updated! Your progress is motivation for the rest of us! Now it's time for a nice merlot and a rest for my weary hands. 🍷Cheers!

Sam's gingerbread looks wonderful! Have you ever, or would you, share the recipe? Enjoy your knitting and holiday preps!

And you have time to take pictures and post for the Blog! Thank YOU.

The tree is a nice sparkly background too. mmm, pictures of the gingerbreads would be very fun.

Wow, you have gotten lots done. Must be the Lever Knitting!

Awsome job I love the then and now pics . I've recently found "arm knitting" and you can whip up a beautiful scarf or cowl in less than half an hour. Great for your funky knit loving friends and last minute loved ones. I saw a video link on this one sight decided to check it out!! Really fun and instantly gratifying ! This is one knitter who will not let "IT" get me down! Merry Christmas to all and to all a good knit

Blocking with thinner knitting yarns items I got this advise: put the sleeves insides against each other one on top of the other on your blocking board or mattress, same with front and back pieces or left and right of button up parts. This way you can pat them exactly the same size. Works great for baby and toddler items, where 3/8 of an inch difference is so clearly to be seen in the finished object, like 1,5 inch in grown up items. I like to use T-pins if possible, glass headed ones when I run ot of T-heads, never the thinknobbed ones, they get lost to easily and I had an enormous scratch on my leg one time, that tought me to use the better ones right away.

What is that gorgeous red yarn????

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Yes please what is your gingerbread recipe? I have yet to find one that works right. I saw yours on the twitter pic you posted and they looked amazing! Great baking to Sam!
Good luck on your knitting. I am still plodding through a pair of colour work mittens for my husband and they are killing me.

Now I want a hedgehog cookie cutter! Pics please! :) The year the French Press slipper pattern came out I knit like 7 pairs for christmas gifts...quick but I overdosed a bit and can't knit them anymore. And I didn't even make myself a pair...maybe someday I'll be ready for more? ;)

YOU ARE A GENIUS!

My boss gave me an Amazon gift cert for Christmas, and I'd been trying to decide what I wanted that I could order from Amazon (as opposed to Webs or Ravelry or my LYS, where I prefer to spend money LOL).

I couldn't think of anything I'd be sufficiently excited about, then I thought...I will go see what Stephanie has listed in her Gifts For Knitters.

DUH! I've wanted real interlocking blocking matts for AGES. Just ordered some.

Thank you and Merry Christmas! :)

Thank you so much for the idea of foam interlocking blocks as a gift for a knitter. I am the knitter and crocheter in the family, and while not as energetic as you, I am forever looking for a solution to the blocking episode that follows finishing a sweater. These blocks show up in toy stores and yard sales, too. Great idea and much appreciated.

My kids heard about the hedgehogs. And the moose. And the snails. And the dinosaurs. and now they say my cookie cutters are boring and they want creative control in the kitchen.
Which would be less of an issue if the ring leader weren't only 6!

Peony67, my dad had the same belief that sharp things cannot be "given," only " bought," lest the recipient be injured by said object. I don't know that superstition's geographic origin, do you? Daddy's ancestry was Scots and Irish. Mom's was English and Welsh, and she didn't share that belief.

Dear Stephanie, I have a suggestion for your knitter-gift ideas for next year: Would it be possible to post them in mid-November so I can share them with family before all their gift decisions are made?

And I second all of the pleas for photos, even if they can't be posted until after your family events.

I went looking for blocking mats last year and was blown away by the $60 price tag. I was walking to the cashiers stand with a package of the foam tiles you put under your exercise equipment for$30 for 22 sq ft of rearrangeable tiles the same size and slightly thicker as the "knitting" blocks.Felt pretty clever. Then I saw it.
A lovely purple EXERCISE MAT. Thick lightweight dense material water resistant surface and it rolls up!! Blocked on it and the pin marks cant be found! Love it!! And it was only $12.99.
Now that I've graduated to shawls a second one laid out next to the first works perfectly.

I went looking for blocking mats last year and was blown away by the $60 price tag. I was walking to the cashiers stand with a package of the foam tiles you put under your exercise equipment for$30 for 22 sq ft of rearrangeable tiles the same size and slightly thicker as the "knitting" blocks.Felt pretty clever. Then I saw it.
A lovely purple EXERCISE MAT. Thick lightweight dense material water resistant surface and it rolls up!! Blocked on it and the pin marks cant be found! Love it!! And it was only $12.99.
Now that I've graduated to shawls a second one laid out next to the first works perfectly.

I need to buy myself another set of foam tiles to use for blocking. I really liked them. They somehow got lost during a move, but I saw a set at Marshalls the other day that I want to get.

Add me to the list of knitters who are firm believers in those foam squares for blocking. Arthritis has completely taken away my ability to get down on the floor to block on a rug. I use the blocking mats on my DR table and can move around without problem. I bought mine at Home Depot in whatever department has rug mats. $18 US for a set of four 24" mats.

Cookie cutter tip:

My sister became enamoured of biology when in secondary school, and one result was paramecium shaped cookies. She did a cardboard pattern. That would work for any other shape that you can't get hold of on short notice.

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