Gift Frustration



I love giving gifts, so when a bunch of my co-workers (or their significant other) became pregnant I made some adorable booties for one. They where loved so much, that another co-worker, whom I don’t really know at all said she just had to have some. My list was growing longer by the second, I didn’t really want to make them, but I have a hard time saying no and she offered to pay for them. I have decided to charge her $30. I have yet to tell her this, so hopefully she goes along with it, since she just had to have them.
My problem is that when I started to try and make the Just Ducky (http://www.p2designs.com/images/patterns/set-ducky.html) set for a co-worker who I do know, I couldn’t get my gage right. The first hat I made was big enough for me to wear, I ripped it out. The second one I made was so small that a preemie would be hard pressed to wear it. I decided to ignore that fact and start on the flipper shaped booties, they where enormous. I gave up, tore everything out and am toying with the idea of making an odd shaped stuffed animal, that way if I mess up the gage no one will know but me!
I need to finish these two projects as soon as possible though, because if I don’t start on my Christmas list of gifts, they will never be done for Christmas! So in the future, I have decided that I am not making co-workers gifts anymore, unless they are paying for them or very special friends out side of work as well!

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