Merry Christmas!

And a happy new year. In honor of receiving lovely gifts today, I want to make it part of my New Year's resolution to always have something for someone else on the needles. By that, I mean a specific object for a specific person. I have a habit of making things and thinking "oh, I'm sure I can give this to someone" and then liking them and keeping them. The thing is I really don't need any more hats, scarves, gloves, or knitted items in general, and I love knitting for other people. This way, I will spend time thinking about all the people I care about as I make the item for them. So I will come up with some vague ideas that I can elaborate on later.

• Baby items for all the wonderful babies I know
• Graduation gifts for many of my classmates - dishcloths, pillows, blankets?
• Lacy items for my mother
• Dishrags for my grandmother -- for some reason, this is the only knitted item she is interested in receiving.
  
• Scarf for my teacher who wanted to steal the one I've been wearing this winter
• Socks forfriend who said he's always wanted a pair of hand-knit socks
• Eye-masks for people I'll be travelling with this summer (always great for plane trips)
• Leggings for friend who has been requesting them for ages. I have yet to find the correct pattern to use.
  

Any other ideas?