These are the cookies I have finished.
This is a cowl that is not finished.
This is a sweater that is… not finished.
I am undaunted. A little sweaty maybe, but undaunted. I’ve got 24 hours.
These are the cookies I have finished.
This is a cowl that is not finished.
This is a sweater that is… not finished.
I am undaunted. A little sweaty maybe, but undaunted. I’ve got 24 hours.
Of course you do!
Go! Never give up! I’m mid washcloth and 3/4 done a shawl (thankfully it’s a heavy weight yarn, but oh those ends to weave in for the colour changes!) I’m rooting for you and all the knitters out there cranking out the stitches!
YES!! 🙂
Cookies?! You’re supposed to be knitting! Stop making cookies!!
Oh . . . I mean, the cowl is almost done by my standards. The sweater – is a little less done. You’ve got 24 hours. You can do this!! (If you stay away from making more cookies . . . )
Everything depends on what time the gifts are opened.
Or which time zone you can say it is still Christmas Day in…
You can do it!
For you, a piece o’cake. Enjoy the rush.
Go! Go! Go!
You are really wonderful.
The warmest and merriest of Christmases to you.
Go Steph go! You’ve got this!
Coffee!! Tell me you have coffee!! 🙂
And, erm, make sure it’s caffeinated…
Oh yeah, can’t leave out the caffeinated part!! LOL
Super caffeinated. Death Wish Coffee! ’nuff said
🙂
I accidentally had some of my husband’s Death Wish Coffee.. once. I thought I was going to die! I immediately banned it in the house. Who on Earth needs that much caffeine??? I was pretty sure I was experiencing some 4th (or maybe 5th????) dimension. Insane.
YOU CAN DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You’ll do it Stephanie. I’m rooting for you – you’re Wonder Woman with knitting needles.
Knit, knit, knit.
I love top down knitting……no seam’s.
Last year i knitted a sweater for a larger member of our family and remember the elation of yay I’m all done and then the oh but I’ve got to sew it……I was seriously considering gifting it in kit form.
I feel your pain! I still have so much to do before tomorrow! Why is it that even with a lot of planning I’m always rushing to get to Christmas on time?
Knit like the wind, you can do it!!!!!
Funny. When I’m facing a stressful deadline, I deviate and bake.
This is really grippingly entertaining. I may have to read this blog on a daily basis.
That whole sleep thing is highly over-rated.
Pretty sure I’ve seen you pull off crazier things. You got this. Knit on…
By the will of all things woolly you have got this!
Merry Christmas to you and your family.
Knitting and beer! And a pot of coffee for the mornings.
I am just about to start baking and my kitchen it overrun with ants. Not sure how this is going to work. But going to give it a try.
No need to add sprinkles to the cookies…
Cayenne pepper will make the ants run. Might make the cookies spices though.
You’ll do this and fly. I have to have 2 hats completed by tomorrow at 11:30 am (when I pick up my offspring)… finished the bigger hat today. Now it’s wrapping gifts….
You got this! this is why they invented COFFEE and 5 hour energy!
Good luck!
I believe!
Glad the yarn came. Good luck and Merry Christmas!
Sleep is overrated anyway.
You’ve got this. We’re all in the same boat.
Top off that espresso and grab the cookies.
We can knit around the clock. We’ve got the Magic of the Season on our side.
Happy holidays to you, Stephanie, and to The Blog. Celebrate everything with everyone you love. Life is too short not to cram in as much fun as possible.
Joy to the wooled,
Steph’s yarn has come.
She’s cast on two more gifts!
Let every knitter
And hooker wish her well,
While her needles click,
While her needles click, while her needles,
Her needles, her needles click!
Oh, Ellen, thanks. This is really clever!
That’s great! Merry Christmas!
Oh, how clever! Thanks, Ellen. Hoosiers are so creative. (I was born in Evansville but got transplanted to Green Bay, WI–go, Pack, go!)
Looks like just the right order to me, distract them with cookies while you finish knitting!
There is not a single person in the world, especially those that are knitworthy, that isn’t willing to wait for the knitting to be complete.
Be thankful for your time zone: where I am the Big Day arrives in about nine hours, and I have yet to send out my Christmas cards. Oh, and the machines (electrical and otherwise) that make brandy butter have all decided today is the day to not quite work. You depend only on your hands – you can do this! Or at least, you can if anyone can…
Who Needs Sleep, right? Bring on the coffee. I believe in you.
Delegate non-knotty things?
Thank you for posting – I have been wondering. Knitterly things will be done – I am sure. Beautiful colors of yarn too. Yes, coffee, good film, music…no baking. Perhaps another can bring more cookies if needed?
Would you be willing to share your cookie recipe? Mine never look like that.
It’s perfectly okay to stretch out the suspense of Christmas after the day. A stitch in whatever time warms fine.
I have no doubt you’ll pull off another stellar piece of work. Best wishes for the knitting and Christmas.
Don’t open this comment until after the 25th – but when you do, know we are/were all sending mojo!
Go! Go! Go! Coffee and peppermint bark!
Keep those cookies by your side to power you through!
I’m playing with time myself and have been reading your blog this week with great empathy! I am just now casting on the neck band for a sweater for my 22 year old son. To add to the anxiety of a time crunch, I am also feeling a little pressure from the yarn chicken. I’m glad your yarn arrived! And I know you can do it!!!
Just to play it safe, do you have:
Instant coffee, in case the coffeemaker goes on strike?
Emergency shelter (i.e., your mom’s place) for Millie, in case she decides to be super evil?
Store-bought cookies, in case the oven goes on vacation?
Gift wrap &/or IOU plans for at least two gifts?
Enough screech, beer, bourbon, wine, etc. to see you through this?
Egg nog for the men in the white coats, the ones who’ll be coming to take you away?
You can do it, Steph! . In the event that the clock beats you, partially finished and wrapped are almost as good as the recipient still has an additional gift to look forwaed to.
Best wishes to you, Joe and your expanding family and friends.
I am finishing a gift card holder…I abandoned the kitchen scrub cloths (made by knitting cotton yarn and strips of nylon net held together) as the arthritis in my hand is protesting too much. But I got the cowls done, and the headband for my daughter in law, and that is the end of the knitting projects…I am going to try to finish the blouse I started for myself and set aside to work on the gifts. Oh, did I mention we’re having Christmas on Tuesday? I have a few more days…
I decided to cast on a pair of knee socks for my one year old and thought “Who do I think I am, the Yarn Harlot?!” At least she is wee so the first one is finished already!
What pretty colors of yarn, well worth waiting for!
I’m sure you’ll whip these two little things out with time to spare. Have a lovely Christmas!
Ah, the Yarn Harlot Christmas scramble. At a time of year when everything on the internet is either depressing or just blathering crap, we can always count on you to give us something Real and fun. I sometimes wonder if you do it on purpose to give us all a nice xmas gift. Either way I love it! Even when things are going much better than this year, it is super fun to watch your xmas come together.
Thanks and good luck! Go Stephanie Go!
I am definitely wrapping up a sweater minus one sleeve today! I might put the second sleeve, needles and all, in the bag too.
There is no shame in wrapping wool. Letting Joe be right, however, is a completely different issue. KNIT! KNIT! KNIT!
In awe – only started baking today. My dad’s other sock is sans heel turn. I turn here for inspiration and voila! I am definitely inspired. Merry Christmas Eve.
I have faith in you, Steph. You’ve got this. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all.
Merry Christmas to you and your family
I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
(May your needles speed along and let the wool fly through your fingers!)
You are awesome…go, girl, go…if you can’t do it then NONE of us can do it 🙁
If anyone can, you can.
And if you can’t, then they will appreciate the timely thought and the gift a little late.
Good luck!
Merry Christmas Stephanie. Hope you got the knitting done (you’ll be forgiven if you didn’t)
As I wait with baited breath to see if the all the things were knit, I wanted to wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas and All the best in 2017!!
Thank you for sharing your world with us!
Merry Christmas! May kindness and compassion be abundant in 2017! Thank you for all you do to further comity in the world.
I wish you a blessed Yule, a Merry Christmas, and all the love and joy that 2017 could possibly bring to you and your family. Thank you so much for being here for us all when we needed an escape, a comrade, a listening ear, or a knitting buddy. To several religions, this time of year celebrates a light in the darkness, and you have been our light more times than you could ever know. On this dark (though not the darkest!) night, may you find your light, and may you and your family be blessed with peace and abundance in the coming year. Merry Christmas, Harlot, and blessed be, coming at you from mid-Missouri.
I know you sent your message to Steph, but the rest of us who read it get to share in your beautiful comment. Thank you. from one of the Rest of Us.
Agreed. Eloquently spoken, Erin!
Love the cookie pics. What cookie press do you use?
I just took this picture today. It is of Buyuk Han on the north side of the wall in Nicosia, Cyprus.
Yarn bombed by Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot women, working together for lasting peace.
I thought you would appreciate it in the post-holiday defrazzling.
https://goo.gl/photos/MVLFAnaEP5R5DzfK7
so, how did it all turn out?
Julie in San Diego, who has started knitting for 2017 xmas
I’m not the only one who’s been checking in multiple times a day just to see how this turned out, right? 😛 Last-minute knitting is riveting!
No, you are definitely not the only one!
Inquiring minds want to know……
Just how dId the knitting turn out? I’m betting the cowl was finished, but I can’t imagine that the “swatch” turned into a sweater.
Me too. Fireworks going ff all round me, into the New Year in UK … and all I want to know is how did she do?!!
I too am checking in several times a day while at work, interested in how it turned. I’m still slogging through my Christmas projects. Wanted to wish you and your family a wonderful New Year. I hope it brings health and happiness to you and yours.
Hoping all is well, and a safe and happy new year to you, Stephanie!
I gifted my daughter a sweater without a neck band, and when she tried it on, we all agreed that it looked better without, more modern and interesting! Hope the outcome of your knitting crisis was similarly serendipitous. Happy New Year to all! See you on the flip side.
Stephanie, are you okay? I’m a bit worried about you. Or selfishly needing more posts here? Happy New Year to you and your family,
samm in Welland
I am holding my breath to find out how it all turned out …… I hope you and the family had a fab day anyway, whatever the state of the knitting.
Is all fine at your end? Hope so. Have a wonderful start in the new week.
I love the simplicity of this post and, as always, your humour. Sincerely, hoping you survived those 24 hours. All the best in 2017, the year which is … not finished either!
Hope all’s well with you and yours, Stephanie. When you’re so quiet, your fans worry!
A very happy and healthy New Year to all.
For those who are worried about Stephanie’s well-being, pop onto her Instagram page. She is having what appears to be a lovely vacation
Oh thank goodness! I was so worried!
We are all checking in with baited breath.
Do we need to form a search party? WE MISS YOU.
ah HAH!!!! (Thank you Barbara!!) https://www.instagram.com/yarnharlot/
You’re very welcome! (I was getting a little worried too – I think I’ve been a mother too long!)
OK, time’s up! you HAVE to let us know how the knitting turned out! It has been almost 13 days and we NEED to KNOW!!!!
Happy New Year! Just checked out your Instagram site…looks extremely cold but lots of well-earned fun for you and Joe.
Since we’ve not heard from you since before Christmas, I hope, dear Harlot, that all is well. Happy New Year to you and your kin. Blessings to the mama to be, especially, and to you. I’m sure everyone can join me in saying that “we love you, dear Harlot”
It seems all is well! Check her Twitter or Instagram pages (up in the right-hand column). She and Joe are happily skiing…no internet. Ahhhh…good for the Harlot!
Do you think she . . . forgot about us? 🙁
No, no. She wouldn’t do that . . .
Hm . . . She’s torturing us!! No, no. That doesn’t sound right, either . . .
Hm . . .
So, apparently the blog is broken. Someone asked in the comments on instragram if the blog would be fixed by its 13th anniversary.
Well, at lest she wasn’t toying with us . . . 😀
um . . . least, not lest . . .
Oh my dearest YH! Where are You?? Hope all is well! Maybe your fingers are frozen from our recent cold snap??
Knitting of all kinds can keep. Even when very unfinished. Even knowing it’s coming can make someone feel warm and happy. But everyone is warmer and happier with actual cookies inside them. So just to say I’m totally with your priorities.