Keeping it secret

So it turns out that it's really really difficult to write a blog post about your knitting in the run up to Christmas.

The problem is, I like the idea of people reading my blog, so obviously I don't want to be hiding it away and telling people not to read it.  That would just be foolish!  On the other hand, I don't want the people I'm knitting for to see what I'm making for them, or in fact to even have the clue that I am knitting for them at all.

So, what can I post here?

I've decided that I can probably get away with posting this:

This is the yarn that I'm using for the first couple of things I'm knitting this Christmas.  There is more, but the rest of the gifts aren't likely to be delivered until after Christmas day, so I figure I've got a little bit longer before I need to cast those on.

I suspect that anyone who sees the pink yarn is going to work out pretty quickly who that is for, but I've got some hope that the secret of the purpose of the rest might be kept.

It's a little bit exciting actually, because the grey yarn is my very own handspun, and it's the first of my handspun that is being used for an actual proper purpose.

However, it's also scary, because that photo was only taken today.  Yes, today.  I have 3 weeks to get my knitting done, and I've only just got around to balling up the yarn.

Still not finished

The Christmas knitting isn't it either.  Remember the socks that I was knitting to be a birthday present on the 29th November?

You'll notice that it's a sock.  Singular.  The second sock is still on the needles.

Basically, I've had flu for the last 2 weeks, so I've not had the energy or co-ordination to do very much at all.  It's supremely frustrating.

Maybe I'll get these finished in time for Christmas too...

I do have some new penguins too.  No photos for you though.  Partly that's because one of the new penguin things is being saved for my actual Christmas update.  Partly it's because I've left my camera at work, and there's a limit to how much I can steal my boyfriends phone to take photos.  So you'll have to wait to see my new penguins next time.

TTFN my dears.