Christmas Knitting Retrospective

I'm not sure that two finished objects make up a retrospective, but since I managed to finish two projects in a semi-timely fashion and am talking about them several weeks after the fact, that's what I'm going to call it.

The first FO is a hat for Justin. Every morning during his internship, he had to check the eight-foot tall fence surrounding 140 acres of the ranch. He did this on an ATV in all types of weather. Neither snow nor rain nor sleet nor temperatures below zero kept this young man from the swift completion of his appointed round, but even with a hat on, he still got very cold. If one hat didn't work, maybe two would do the trick, so Run the Fence to the rescue.

His double-layer, reversible hat did keep him warm. I really wish these colors were available in nice wool instead of this icky acrylic, but it is washable and much better suited to a 22-year-old male than something requiring hand-washing.

The second FO was intended as a Christmas gift, but I didn't finish it until more than a week afterwards. When I knit Nostalgia for Ryan's birthday, he said that he wouldn't mind having a pair of fingerless mitts with just black and grey stripes. I found the exact yarn he wanted, so Your Wish is Granted. The photos aren't great because there wasn't much light when I finished them at 1:00 am, just five hours before taking him to the airport to head home to Colorado. But I did finish them, and they are proving useful in the 3° temps he's had.

Now it's time for some selfish (and warm) knitting for me!