Quick post and run 1

I am trying to post more often honestly, there are loads of things the last few months that I have knitted and haven't even hinted about here. Even my Ravelry page isn't as up to date as I usually like to keep it, photos are missing actually even a project or two is missing my current projects to be exact. There is also stash purchased (it was for more presents honestly, jeez can't a girl buy yarn guilt free nowadays) that hasn't been added, hence the projects haven't been.
To add to this the boys are off school for half term this week which knocks my pc time a fair bit. Then factor in hubby has been laid off work as well (credit crunch, worldwide recession, now theres a club I didn't want to be part of!!!) so added to the severe shortage of cash this will mean my pc time will be reduced even further unless I can erm convince hubby to go and start prepping the allotment for spring (if you are off work hunnybun we need to grow our own food more than ever, now is not the time to give up plot, ps if he gives up the plot chances are I will lose the thin thread I have attached to my sanity).
Bearing this in mind I have decided to try a few short posts featuring some of the projects I did in the run up to christmas as well as a few in the new year. I'm seeing if I can reduce the time it takes me to blog which currently stands at about 5 hours a post to well as short a time as possible so hopefully I can start blogging more often. I'm hoping that the pressure from having to do it fairly secretly and furitively with others in the house will force me to learn a little quicker. It will probably all end in disaster with such haphazrd posts that you all think I have inhaling far too many fumes from vintage yarn bargain buys from ebay ( I haven't been near place honest guv!!).


This first set is what my nephew Connor (happily modelling for you to see) had for Christmas and then his birthday knitted by moi. He did in fact ask for a skull hat after seeing one in the Anticraft, Knitting, Beading and stitching for the slightly sinister. Being a pre-teen rock and metal fan (it runs in this family!!) he is very into skulls, an awful lot of his clothes feature them in fact so when an 11 year old (he is now 12) lad actually wants hand knitted who I am I to refuse? The hat and scarf were for christmas and then the wristwarmers were for his birthday at the end of Jan. I have been told that he wears the hat a lot and the wristwarmers have in fact hardly come off since he had them (he did put them on straight away after opening them and was still wearing them when we left his house on his birthday). I think that is what is called a result.