Mittens

Okay one mitten anyway.

I'm nearly finished the first one. There a few loose stitches but overall I'm happy with it. There are a few more rows left on the hand, and then I just need to shape the thumb.

I'm experimenting with the new camera. I imagine the pictures will get better as I get more familiar with it.

More on the mittens

I'm more than half done with the first mitten. After frogging it about half a dozen times. Hopefully I'll have the pair finished before the end of January.

But my history is to have several projects in the works at one time. It is preferable to have more than one because sometimes you just get tired of working on something, but not tired of knitting.

I also still need to weave in ends on those socks. Now I wish I hadn't made striped ones.

Mittens

I started the mittens yesterday. I've finished the cuff portion of the first one. I really like how it is looking so far. Although the tricky part will be with the thumb portion.

When my mother saw the bamboo double pointed needles, she thought they were sticks.

This is my first experience with bamboo double points. They work really well on the wool yarn I'm using. They have a very smooth feel to them.

I'm hoping to have the first mitten finished by the end of next week so that I can start the second.

The socks are done

I finally finished up the socks that were taking forever. It will be a long time before I make socks that long again. They just take too long. I've been working on them since September, although granted there were also other projects that I was working on.

I'm probably going to start the mittens this weekend.

Growing yarn stash and holiday knitting

Well my stash is huge now. My Knit Picks order came with My Clapotis yarn and size 4, 5, and 6 double points, and I went to a yarn store in Naperville that was closing and had a sale. I bought some Cascade 220. So now my yarn storage case is full and I have several projects to start.

I'm nearly finished with holiday knitting and have started holiday blocking. I only need to finish up what I knitting for my mom and then I'll be done. I blocked one of the hats last night and it is drying.

I'll be glad when it is all done, so I can start my mittens and hat, to finish up the hat glove and mitten set I've been working on.

Well I ended up missing the shower due in part to the snowstorm that hit Chicago and the idiocy of the airline. Needless to say I'm extremely irritated since I wanted to be there when my sister saw the blanket and hat for the first time. Now I have to mail them.

Since I ended up being home I went to Hobby Lobby looking for a row counter, the type that clicks. But I didn't like the one they had. So I'm still loooking. Maybe I'll try Michael's or Jo-Ann's. I'm tired of the type I have.