The area surrounding Rogue's hood is, apparently, a time warp. You can knit and knit and never feel like you are making progress.

I cross out lines on my chart (with more and more enthusiam) but the hood never looks any bigger. My chart says I have only 40 more rows:

I dont know if I really believe it though. It feels like I'll be knitting it forever.

Can you believe its nearly christmas?

That means its nearly time for New Years when we all make our resolutions. Mr. Fruitychick and I always try to make some kind of meaninful and fun resolution--learn something new, try something new together, etc. This year our "together" resolution is to try to learn some spanish so we can begin teaching the munchkin from an early age.

I have a few resolutions for myself:

1. Knit at least 6 sweaters/tops. Thats one every two months. The rate I'm going, I'll be able to finish Rogue in two months, so I think thats a decent benchmark. In all this time I've been knitting, I just dont have hardly any actual clothing to show for it and I want some, darnit!

2. Improve my spinning. My birthday/christmas present this year from Mr. Fruitychick was a drumcarder--a Strauch Finest. I want to learn how to blend fibers and spin great yarn from batts. My spinning has greatly improved since I started but I feel like I spin a lot of sock weight three ply. Its not a bad thing, but I do want to expand my horizons.

3. Improve my photography. Everyone likes good photos, right? I ordered a light tent the other day (yes, I know you can make one for nearly free but I wanted one that collapses easily so I can store it in a place where I will actually use it) and today I dropped by the hardware store and bought two clamp on lights and some daylight bulbs. I can already tell the difference that good lighting makes:

The colors in this picture are dead on without any retouching at all. I can't wait to see the improvement the tent will make! (Knitting is a Bucket Hat in Malabrigo "lettuce," by the way)

So what about you guys--do you have any knitting/blog resolutions?