16 knitting days left until Christmas!

I've reached the point where school stress and knitting panic meld together into the perfect cocktail of anxiety. Instead of finishing end-of-term grading or beginning work on my final papers, I am knitting myself into a frenzy here as I finish holiday gifts. Completed this weekend: the partner to the Felici striped sock I made a while ago:


Now only one sock left to go: the partner for the Jaywalker sock I made last month. Here's the progress, such as it is:


The next few projects I can only show snippets of, as I don't know if the recipients will be reading this post:


And there's more: I am still totally stalled on my grandmother's February Bed Jacket, for example, needing to work a few more lace rows and bind off the body before starting on the sleeves. If I can get that all done in time I may try to cram in some mitts for a few relatives and friends. Then after Christmas, it's back to selfish knitting for me, baby! And man, do I have some fun things lined up!

Thanks to Knitting Knoobie, who gave me a Kreativ Blogger award. She's a pretty new knit blogger and I know she'd love you all to check out her blog. I'm supposed to list six things that make me happy six other Kreativ Bloggers.

So things that make me happy:

1. Singing. No matter how stressful my day has been, singing in my choir every week is a great release and makes me feel so peaceful.

2. Pride and Prejudice. I could read this novel nonstop if I had the time. And the miniseries -- I mean, what more do I need to say?

3. My sister's laugh. It's loud and obnoxious and so contagious!

4. Red licorice of any variety.

5. The fact that when I said, "Let's read some more of 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock'," today, one of my students said, "Oh yes!! I want to find out what the overwhelming question is!"


As for six other bloggers to award, I think there are too many great ones to single out any, and I kind of feel like web awards are like chain mail, and that I don't want to proliferate them. So I will just direct you to my sidebar of blogs I follow, all of which are great!