One Shade I've got my needles in

Working on a gator. This is a favor for a friend - she's giving it to another friend as a gift. This works out as I like making knitted toys but once they are done I have no actual use for them. So they just gather dust until I give them away. Why not just give them away before the dust settles?

I'm way further now - I took this pic three days ago. Now I just have one more leg and the mouth to go. Plus all the finishing. I might not be done too soon as I need to pick up some felt and I don't know when I'll get around to that.

Funny enough - not only is this green, but so is the sweater I just finished and the one I'm working on now. Guess it's my color right now.

In the Knitting Bag

Instead of doing a list of resolutions for the new year I thought I would just take pictures of all my current knitting. That way I can look back next year and see what got done, scrapped, and might still be in progress. So, on to the current WIPs:


First up is a soon to be S'n B Kittyville hat. I just need ears and possibly ties. It's actually a little smaller than adult size as it's meant for a child. This needs to be done mid Jan as that's when the child's birthday is.



Next up I have my current work/movie/travel knitting. No time limit on these, just easy knitting for those free moments when out and about.



Yet another sock. This is "Sunshine" from Sock Innovation. This is the first sock. I'm happy to say this is the second time I've knit from this book even though I've only had it since the end of April (I have a history of buying books and magazines and never making anything from them.) I have to say I love the book and intend on making at least half of the designs in it. Again, no time limit on the socks. I'm just making them for the fun of it.



This is the current state of the gloves I began ages ago. I've heard of second sock syndrome - but I seem to suffer from second glove. I do want to finish these before the weather warms up.



Swatches for projects to be. Sweaters, I think. But sometimes plans change.




Not yet wound but already destined to be fingerless gloves for BB- the pair I made him a few years back are beginning to disintegrate from constant loving wear.

My continuing quest for warm hands

I've knitted gloves before but they were always for someone else. For the longest time I've hankered for a pair of gloves to call my own. So I'm finally going to remedy this situation. The pattern is the ruffled gloves from Loop d Loop and the yarn is some knit picks palette (I possess a metric ton of this stuff). This is the first glove and I'm quite close to starting the fingers. The only modifications I've made thus far is to go down a needle size on both the big and small needles and to use thinner yarn. I must be the loosest knitter in the universe because even when I get gauge and knit things several sizes smaller than my measurements - I often end up with something too big. Hence the going down in yarn and needle size. So far they seem to fit fine.

Like socks, but faster

I've not been knitting a whole lot lately. There's the beanie that never ends, but progress on that is dull. And I've got two sweaters going but they are top down raglans and not past the yokes. So I decided that maybe what I needed was an instant gratification project. I settled on hand warmers. I actually only have one pair but I've knit lots - they make excellent gifts because they take so little yarn and time. I knit this one yesterday. I plan on casting on the next one today but taking my time with it. There is no pattern, I cast on a couple times and ripped out until I got what I wanted. I like my hand warmers on the snug side as they tend to loosen up a lot with washing and wearing. I knit them on sixes and used a worsted weight alpaca/lambswool blend for the yarn. I don't know the brand as I've long lost the ball band (I know it's not Berroco though). The yarn started life as a beret that I knit around six months ago. I kept pulling it out of my knitting bag, putting it on, sighing, and putting it back. I figured since I had yet to weave in ends the yarn was not intended for a beret.

Originally I was going to put the cable down the back of the hand but I didn't like it that way and then I figured on the side might work. It does, though I'm thinking I might sew a few mismatched buttons on the stockinette section. I'll see once they're done.