Getting my knit on

My friend Beth Anne just showed me the basics of knitting last time she was here. Now I have been putting those skills to use. I made myself a little white, sparkly beanie with a pom pom. I made a chunky, ribbed Christmas scarf I intend to sell. And now I am working on another hat. Let me tell you knitting in the round is semi-easy at first when you are using a circular needle but once you begin the decreasing process and there are needles and yarn everywhere it becomes a yarn battle. 

This chunktastic scarf would definitely fend against wintery winds.

Hometown yarn with 17 gauge needles

Now I know pom poms were invented to cover up funky mistakes.

I somehow managed to make all of the stitches all backwardsy and I don't know how. But whatever it is on my head and I can't see it. 

Switch stitch'd

 So to prepare myself for Christmas I am beginning to craft Christmas style. *Note large Christmas scarf above. So I made this little guy. He is a snowman pin. With a teeny tiny Christmas scarf of his own. I am not used to crocheting with itty bitty hooks so it took me longer to make that scarf than probably the rest of the little guy. I'd say it was two episodes of Supernatural. Of course it is hard to take your eyes off the screen when Dean is adorably fighting demons to save his brother and the world. Oh, yeah, the snowman... back to that now. He isn't knit like the stuff above but he does have a matching scarf so he can be in this post.

A little snowman pin. 

Any thoughts on how I screwed up the stitches on the scarf? Any suggestions for further Christmasy crafts? What are you making for the Christmas times?