Causing Panic

Grace likes to tell me whenever Aidan is getting into something he usually shouldn't "Aidan is causing panic!".  It makes me chuckle everytime.  It hit me on the 14th that it was 10 days until Christmas Eve.  Eeep!  I have caused myself some panic.

This year, I made a decision not to go crazy trying to do a whole swack of handmade gifts for people.  Last year, up until the last minute, I was busy knitting away.  Two scarfs, a cowl, a pair of fingerless mitts, and two animals for the kids.  Phew!  Scarfs seem easy.  After all they are just long and skinny.  Key there is LONG.  And I tend to notice scarves take a long time to knit.  To knit and gift someone with a scarf, shows a whole bunch of love and care for that person.  (I think anyways, coming from a knitters perspective).

So this year, I did things a little different.  I gifted out of the sheer joy of gifting, outside of the Christmas season.  Giving a couple people a little unexpected knitterly surprise.

First, after Grace's surgery, I wanted to do something for her surgeon.  And I wanted to do something to recognize his skilled hands.  I went up to my stash and found the perfect skein.  So perfect it was, to be honest, slightly hard to part with.  I then called the two men I know who are tall (Dr. Fraulin is at least 6'7.  No really, I asked the nurse).  Once I had the hand measurement of the other two guys, I set to knitting Dr. Fraulin a pair of mitts.  He was smitten with them.  When we went back for our return visit last week, he came in the room with a smug smile on his face and asked "Did you knit me more mittens?" :)

You may also recall I made a cowl for my girlfriend to keep her toasty warm.  She is Canadian (now) but her roots are in England.  All this snow gets the best of her every year.  Heck, it gets the better of me too, but I grew up here so I have a certain tolerance of having to just cope and get through it.  She too loved it.

So all I am left with are these:

A semi-secret project.  Um, it was a birthday gift... from last May.  But it is destined to be under a tree, and today is Dec.  15th.  Ahem.

Almost there.  A pair of elf slippers for Aidan.  One done, one almost there.  But they still need to be felted.  Since I no longer have a top load washing machine, this requires an evening trip out to my Moms.

And this?  Ha!  It's Grace's fairy.  Yes, still to start.  To be honest, this has me the most concerned.  For others who I have seen knit these, it has taken them a few days.  And given G is with me most of the time, it's pretty hard to find time to knit in secret.  And we are running out of days.

Slight panic. (Must also say, this panic is caused by my own skill of procrastination).

Is anything out there causing you panic 10 days til Christmas?