Longer time no blog!
This is mostly going to be a photo post rather than a words post, because I'm so far behind ;-) First, Christmas presents for other people...
A scarf for my dad, which seemed to take ages and got very, very boring. But it was worth it because I found out after I'd started that he'd asked my mum for a hat and scarf, and she hadn't been able to find a scarf to fit his exacting requirements, but had bought him a navy hat. And he loves it :-)
A hat with ears for my friend V's baby. Ears to please mummy, goth black to pacify daddy ;-)
And four identical pairs of cable mittens, for three of my best friends and me, with a deeply symbolic four-strand cable design.
And a finished birthday-and-Christmas present to myself (because apparently you can never have too many pairs of fingerless mittens), the modified reading mitts, which I've been wearing all the time:
These aren't technically a Christmas present, but I knit them over Christmas after I realised Ralph had no gloves, and I had some spare black yarn left over from the hat-with-ears. (They're loosely inspired by pictures of Dashing, but not knit to that pattern.)
In fibrey gifts, my parents gave me some spinning wheel bobbins and a rather steam-punky bobbin winder, which I haven't photographed yet, and my in-laws gave me this lovely fibre:
I'm now making a third attempt to knit this lovely purple merino into a jumper. The picture is actually a lie, because something went wrong with my gauge calculations and I had to frog, but the second go is going much better, and is nearly at the armholes (bottom-up) at which point I'm going to have to make a decision about what kind of sleeves to have. It's deliberately plain (no cables on the second version, though there were on the first), so I can knit without looking at it, and therefore read academic papers at the same time, and doesn't mind being put down in the middle of a row (and the harmony needles are grippy enough that I don't need to slide them through) so I can stop to make a note whenever I need to. This means I'm getting through it quite quickly :-)
And finally, the first FO of 2010! Felted slippers, to an improvised design with stripy double-knit soles, and felted to exactly the right dimensions so they fit perfectly!
A scarf for my dad, which seemed to take ages and got very, very boring. But it was worth it because I found out after I'd started that he'd asked my mum for a hat and scarf, and she hadn't been able to find a scarf to fit his exacting requirements, but had bought him a navy hat. And he loves it :-)
A hat with ears for my friend V's baby. Ears to please mummy, goth black to pacify daddy ;-)
And four identical pairs of cable mittens, for three of my best friends and me, with a deeply symbolic four-strand cable design.
And a finished birthday-and-Christmas present to myself (because apparently you can never have too many pairs of fingerless mittens), the modified reading mitts, which I've been wearing all the time:
These aren't technically a Christmas present, but I knit them over Christmas after I realised Ralph had no gloves, and I had some spare black yarn left over from the hat-with-ears. (They're loosely inspired by pictures of Dashing, but not knit to that pattern.)
In fibrey gifts, my parents gave me some spinning wheel bobbins and a rather steam-punky bobbin winder, which I haven't photographed yet, and my in-laws gave me this lovely fibre:
I'm now making a third attempt to knit this lovely purple merino into a jumper. The picture is actually a lie, because something went wrong with my gauge calculations and I had to frog, but the second go is going much better, and is nearly at the armholes (bottom-up) at which point I'm going to have to make a decision about what kind of sleeves to have. It's deliberately plain (no cables on the second version, though there were on the first), so I can knit without looking at it, and therefore read academic papers at the same time, and doesn't mind being put down in the middle of a row (and the harmony needles are grippy enough that I don't need to slide them through) so I can stop to make a note whenever I need to. This means I'm getting through it quite quickly :-)
And finally, the first FO of 2010! Felted slippers, to an improvised design with stripy double-knit soles, and felted to exactly the right dimensions so they fit perfectly!
Labels: black, blue, gift, gloves, hat, knitting, purple, red, scarf, slippers
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