last year I had not long taken up knitting and knitted a few presents, so this year I got carried away and started planning rather a lot, including mini hats and stockings for the Christmas table, designing a pattern for one present myself and then added in a present for friends Warren and Max who just had a new baby!http://www.twobluelines.com and I've now realised quite how close it is and how little time I have with working so much extra at work as well so I've taken to carrying my knitting about much more and trying to squeeze a few more rows in as often as possible! I then had to do a dash in my lunch hour to the craft centre to try and get more wool for the project I'm halfway through and was taking a lot more wool than expected - thankfully they had some left in the right batch no. - Roll on boxing day when I can get on with the project for myself I bought the wool for some weeks ago now!