Projects current and future

Slowly but surely my brother's scarf gets closer to completion. Currently it measures approximately 59 inches in length, although I have to rip out a couple inches due to accidentally knitting the same two rows over four rows and producing a ribbed section that should be moss stitch like the rest of the scarf. It seems like the scarf that won't end, but in actuality I should be able to finish it this weekend.

But then what? My sister-in-law has asked for a scarf to replace the one I knitted for her two years ago. I've been considering making one that's cabled, but I'm not sure if I will have the patience to do that. Pattern and yarn selection continues to wait.

As for the rest of my Christmas knitting, I'm thinking about making a pair of slippers for my dad. The only slippers I've made were knit flat and then seamed, and that was back in the relatively early days I had as a knitter. Now I can knit in the round and take into account the stretch factor, things I didn't especially concern myself with back then.

That may do it for gift knitting this holiday season , although I still owe a hat for the Christmas at Sea program. I pledged to make one for it months ago but haven't gotten around to it. Guess it's time to put up.

Of course, I also have that new pair of socks to cast on again now that the one I made that needed frogged has been undone. I've heard the suggestions that I make a sweater. The time of year is right for it, but I'm not sure that I'm ready temperamentally. I'd prefer to wait until I've lost some of the weight I regained, but there's the risk of that being a perpetual excuse for not doing it.