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Archive for the ‘mittens’ category

Jan
06

I was able to go back and change all the pictures in my posts from those on the Blogger servers to those that I uploaded to WordPress. In general, it doesn’t make much of a difference, but in reality, I need every bit of space that I can wring from Google without ponying up extra cash, and now I’ll be able to delete that album. Here’s what I’ve been working on lately: one mitten (Subway Mitten pattern), finished, and horribly oversized (now palmed off on my dad, or will be whenever I finish the second); a pair of socks using my lovely Brooklyn Handspun (prettier to look at than to knit with, although I no longer loathe it); and the ever-present OpArt, which is growing, but not nearly as quickly as it should be, given the kid is expected somewhere in the next 3 weeks.
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Nov
18

Halfway home

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I finished my first mitten! I’m very proud of myself. I nearly messed up when I got to the thumb, where I didn’t pick up stitches tight enough and had left a rather noticeable hole, but I found the mistake in time to go back and fix it. This pattern is pretty much idiotproof, since I’m sure I made a bunch of boo boos that are completely invisible by this point. I love how knitting this in the round means that I get to knit the whole time (after I finish the ribbing), but that I can then turn the mitten inside out when I’m finished and see a darling knit pattern. When I finished the mitten, I picked it up to photograph it. I thought it would be fun to take pictures of the mitten at the same time as the scarf, so I finally wove in the ends on the scarf. It only took a week.

I feel like I understand mittens now, and am looking forward to starting the other hand tomorrow. Because a lot of patterns say that kid mittens can be interchangeable, I will make the next one as identical as I can to the one I finish today (might be a little better looking, now that I know what I’m doing), but the next set of mittens I do will differentiate between left and right.

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Nov
16

Odds and Ends

img_1198I finished blocking Satanski’s scarf, so all I need to do now is take a few minutes and weave in the ends. It came out really really well, and although it’s not terribly hard to impress a three-year-old, I’m happy that he likes it so much. I also started on what will be the matching mittens. This is my first pair of mittens, and I’m kind of cobbling together several patterns, so we’ll see how those turn out. Here are pictures of the finished scarf (undone ends and all) and the beginning of the mittens.

 

 
img_1192Today, the knitting Meetup group that I belong to had a trial yarn swap. I didn’t prepare well for it at all; I brought 300 yards of a brown striped sock wool, 300 yards of a sunny yellow sock wool, and 600 yards of blue alpaca. I probably shouldn’t have been so obvious about bringing things that interested me not at all! Anyway, I ended up trading the alpaca for some gorgeous light blue bamboo (cannot believe I got that), and the brown wool for some really cool blue cotton. I was also given about 200 yards of a cool white wool with flecks of yellow and orange (it’s cute; definitely for babies/kids). I couldn’t find any takers for the yellow wool, and although I may regret it later, since I still have several balls here and I have no idea what I’m going to do with those, I gave it away for a yarn drop. I hope that somebody can put it to good use!