WIP Wednesday: Christmas Knitting Begins

Man, the holiday has me with a backlog of posts :/ I have been plugging away at various projects, but I just haven't sat down to write about them. Silly, right? I promise after this week, things will become regular again. 

After finishing my Susan Shaw cardigan (which you will see soon), I picked up my Chuck sweater. I've been dutifully knitting just that sweater in the hopes of finishing it with enough time to wear it as a Christmas type sweater even though it's not a Christmas sweater. The color gives it the right vibe. I tried the sweater on after finishing the 2nd cable repeat and it was kind of comically too short. I actually looked at a bunch of other people's projects to see if I had done something wrong because mine was coming up so short, but I just have a long torso. In truth, I have a long yoke - the area between my bust and shoulders is longer than "standard" it seems. It's something I have to correct for frequently, but this left me with a dilemma. I liked the look on other people with the cropped length, but I was going to come up too short or a lot longer than that. In the end, I decided to just go for my natural waist. I did 3 cable repeats and then did 12 rows of ribbing to conserve yarn - adding to the length has now greatly lessened the length of my sleeves. I'm on the neckband now and then I will divide the remaining yarn for the sleeves. Hopefully this one is finished soon!

I've also started cranking out Christmas gifts - literally. This year I'm using my knitting machines to make scarves and hats. I tried with the 48 pin Sentro first knowing I could pull out the big legit knitting machine if that didn't work. I spent Sunday evening cranking.

I kept rolling the scarf up underneath the machine to prevent drag and the donut I got close to the end was pretty comical.

This is my finished first scarf - well the cranking is finished. I'm still on the fence about it. The first half went great, but there are a bunch of tucked stitches and irregularities on the side above the black. I'm trying to decide if this is fine or if I want to rip it out and do it on the Babylock machine.

So I'm now a scarf making machine until Christmas time. I have several items to make as gifts and I'm hoping that this helps me get them all done :) I'm also still mentally working on sewing, but I haven't actually sewed anything this week, lol. Whoops. It's a crazy time, folks. I hope to get back at that after Thanksgiving. Maybe then I won't fall asleep early every night.

Have you started holiday gift making yet?