Another Finished Object!!!

Everyone who knows me and my knitting knows that I'm really bad at finishing projects. The reason for this, is, well, there are so many things I want to knit that I'm forever abandoning things and starting new stuff. Or agreeing to knit something for someone else, thus procrastinating on my own projects. But, it was so gratifying to finish the Olympic socks that I decided it should be my goal to finish more things for me. I've actually finished a lot of projects in the last few months, but none of them were for me. I made everyone in my lab (7) hats for Christmas, and several more for family members. I made armwarmers for gifts. I made a slew of hats to sell (6), plus some more armwarmers. I made a long ass orange cabled scarf to sell for probably way less than it was worth. I thought I was done making stuff for other people until own of my mother's coworkers was so keen on the armwarmers I made my mother for Christmas that she wanted some, so I had to make those (no photo). And then my mother decided that she wanted some teal ones, so I made these. I think I'm done knitting for others now, except for assorted covert gifts that I'll be doing here and there, getting a headstart on next year's Christmas knitting...

I've also made massive headway on my Lady Eleanor. I'm in the middle of the 6th ball of yarn, and I have 3 left. I'm debating whether I should use all 10 balls for the shawl and then buy another for the fringe, dye lot be damned (it's just fringe, after all), or stop at 9 balls. I'll cross that bridge when I come to it. I discovered tonight that it takes me about 6 minutes per enterlac rectangle, which makes me wonder why this thing is taking so damn long. I've worked on it a lot, except for a 2 week hiatus for the Olympics...