1. Choose pattern
2. Have recipient pick out yarn
3. Become obsessed with knitting it so that all homework grinds to a screeching halt and finish it in two days
4. Turn inside out to admire the strands of yarn
5. Put on glass head to admire decreases
6. While on glass head, take picture for blog/Ravelry/posterity
7. Block
9. Infuse with Christmas spirit
10. Blog about it months later