Norwegian Knits-Along: Week 7

Who's been shopping? Who's been neglecting their knitting to buy pressies, bake cookies, go to parties, and ignore their blog for a bit of holiday relaxation? Me! And if you're reading this, step away from the computer and go do something fun. We'll all catch up next week. Have a wonderful holiday, everyone!

(Still here? Some of you are just persistent! Make sure to check our gallery to see who's done with their project!)

Sweaters & Vests
◊ Kim of Knitter in Progress has joined! She's trying to decide whether to knit a hat or a Dale of Norway Olympic sweater, Albertville. Well Kim, seeing as I put you here..... just kidding! Kim's warm-up to the sweater was her fabulous Christmas Rose Bag.
◊ Jen has put her sweater in timeout. Hey, it's the holidays, and she's got more than half of it done.
◊ Jill has swatched for her sweater, yay! She's got some initial thoughts on stranded knitting, but Jill, don't give up. It gets better along the way.
◊ Beth has put her Poetry in Stitches sweater in her 2006 to-do list.

Socks & Stockings
◊ Jessica, whom I met at the knitbloggers get-together, has a dorky picture of me wearing my unfinished Let It Snow! hat.
◊ Liz has finished her stockings! Woo hoo, they look so good. Everyone, go take a look!
◊ Kate has decided to continue with her stocking! It's a great-looking sock, Kate, smurfy and imperfect as it is!

Mittens
◊ Liz needs to seam three mittens (one is already done). And she's doing another pair. Way to go, Liz!

Hats & Headbands
◊ Jillian bares all (ha ha) with her almost-finished headband!
◊ Julia will be working overtime on the Pirate Hat, 3 days left till Christmas! Go Julia, go!
◊ You'll just have to take my word for it that Andrea is almost to the decreases of her Flenten hat! Her colors are beautiful. We'll have to wait until next week to see them, though. I hope!
◊ Sarah has knit yet another hat, the really cool Triple Patterned Watch Cap. That was a quick knit, Sarah! It looks fabby!
◊ Susan has made some progress on her hat! Check out her really cool colors! I think we have another stranded knitter addict here....
◊ Nancy's Traditional hat is knitted with a third color! She left her pattern in the airline seat pocket, but she's going to try to figure the rest of it out!
◊ Jessica finished her husband's Pirates hat, and it fit him! Nothing that a little bit of blocking can't fix, eh Jessica?
◊ Your host has been trying to find her camera. You'd think in 800 square feet of apartment a camera would be an easy thing to find. Not. Anyway, Let It Snow! is finished; I will not be attaching a pompom or a tassel, as I like the top detail. But enough! More on said hat when said camera is recovered.

On with the festivities!