Christmas knitting

I definitely have one more scarf to go before I'm done with my holiday knitting, and that one scarf is my mother's. I'd kind of like to make one for myself for my own birthday, but I'm also anxious to progress on to non-scarf, non-rectangular items. I still have yet to learn how to add or drop a stitch (intentionally, I mean).

I love my new hobby a lot. I really wish I could make money by knitting scarves (it's a fairly mindless activity, even for me) but I have no idea how I could possibly do that. An Etsy search for "scarf" yields over a thousand results, and my work is nowhere near remarkable enough to stand out. Besides, how would I make money in the summer?