Kat with a K

Holiday Knitting Reality Check

There are 48 knitting days before Christmas. Breathe. (That counts today but doesn't count Christmas Day, just for the record.) I have greatly reduced my knitting list, but there are still almost 60 items on it. I persist in thinking that this is doable because 1/3 are ornaments and 1/3 are dishcloths, but we'll see. So. This is what I'm attempting:

A baby sweater, done
A pair of socks, in progress
Two hats
A pair of fingerless mitts
Four scarves, two in progress
A child's hat and mitten set
24 dishcloths, one in progress
About two dozen needle felted ornaments

So... that's totally doable, right? (You are correct in assuming that anything that doesn't say "in progress" or "done" hasn't been started.) The ornaments go quickly - I can probably knock out half a dozen in a devoted evening, or a dozen on a weekend day. The dishcloths also go quickly when I get around to actually doing them. I've been having trouble figuring out priorities here. Obviously, the most important items are the ones for my immediate family, but they're also the ones with the latest deadline, since we exchange gifts on Christmas morning. So do I do the ones that need to be shipped first? Probably. But then I worry that I won't get the really important things done. Sigh.

Clearly What I Need Is a Plan:
1. Finish the non-Christmas thing I have to send off on Monday first. Obviously.
2. Make those socks my purse socks. This seems obvious but somehow I haven't done it yet. Knit at lunch.
3. Find a tam pattern already. Order/buy yarn.
4. Work on dishcloths for at least a few rows each day.
5. Set aside at least one evening next week for ornaments.
6. Try to get enough finished so that by Thanksgiving, I have fewer items left than days to knit them in, because I think that would make things a lot less stressful.

So, how's your Christmas crafting going?