For some reason I have a fondness for Secret Squirrel.  Yesterday when I was looking for an image to gank I realized it was really Morocco Mole I loved.  It’s the color.  Seriously.  I also came across a site that has several pictures of Hanna Barbera toons taken from bubble bath boxes and I guess it is just that mid 60’s palette that swoons me.  Come to think of it the colors are mighty similar to the Classic Elite shades of the 90’s which were oft described as sophisticated.  The Indigo and Pansy Purple and oh yeah MM’s acid green scarf, not seen in this picture, as well as the mustard yellow and brick red…  very sophisticated all around.

I am bringing up Secret Squirrel because I have a new long range project.  This past Christmas I didn’t do any knitted gifts.  I was rather saddened by this.  I mean every year I give either my mom or my sister something knitted.  Okay The Flame too.  The kids occasionally.  Now I have a growing family to knit for.  There are my 3 daughters, my stepdaughter, my two nieces, my two sisters, my mother, and my sister in law just to name the females.  By Christmas next I will have the grand baby to knit for as well.  The men, via The Flame are trying to hone into the line up.  So I decided to get a leg up on the holiday knitting by starting now.  I mean we  have 12 people listed above to knit for should I find the time.  Usually I only manage two or three gifts a year so I am being ambitious.  Ambition requires planning and planning requires starting now.

Because my family is pretty much the only group of people I am sure checks in on my blog I have decided to tag all Gift Knitting “SSK” and preface the post with the picture above.  Unless Hanna-Barbera decides to sue me for copyright infringement.  Then I will come up with something else to use for picture.  If, by some slim chance, you have no reason in the world to think I might knit something for you as a gift feel free to check out my first SSK FO here.  I believe you need a Ravelry account to see my projects and nobody I would knit holiday gifts for works with fiber so I should be safe.  Either way rest assured I have finished something this year.  It is my hope that should a family member see this picture they won’t bother scrolling down to read the post which means I will, sooner or later, be able to give a preview of what is being worked upon.  But until I am sure they have been properly trained each FO will be linked to a Ravelry project page.

Yarny days and knitterly evenings, Elka