Saturday is for…finishing…and starting!

January 27, 2018.Reading time 1 minute.

NYC daughter’s mitts are finished. I could say I planned the color patterning this way…but, miraculously the yarn decided to fade from dark to light in just the right way for the second one so they are almost identical. They are snug on me, so will fit my mini-me perfectly! I made this pattern up, […]

Just one more…WIP

January 25, 2018.Reading time less than 1 minute.

NYC Daughter’s latest request is finger-less mitts. I just happen to have the perfect yarn left over from my best man’s ear warmers….all but the thumb done on the first, cuff started on the second. Project page on Ravelry here… Still working on a pair of socks, kept in the car of course! Blocked my […]

January Socks…

January 23, 2018.Reading time 2 minutes.

This first pair of 2018 is out of what I consider my vanilla sock pattern (below)…I think every knitter has their own go to, this one is mine. I really enjoyed knitting this pair out of Old Oak Yarns in their Hardwood Sock Base, 75/25, 100g – 453, 32g remain for darning or some other […]

A week of finishing…

January 15, 2018.Reading time 1 minute.

Busy week! Lots of non-knitting work happened….real life sometimes gets in the way. Lots of knitting happened. Two finished objects, progress on finishing an object and knitting, knitting, knitting! These two ear warmers were finished for my best man! He loves them and wore the gray one today. My Sandhurst sweater has been almost done […]