They’re done! Hooray!
The Serpentine Mitts, for your viewing pleasure:
I love them. They are awesome. They are not for me. Alas.
I also know that the person they ARE for will love them. And that there will be more of these mitts in my future. Also, the mitts I make for myself will be a larger size. I can get these on, but they’re not exactly comfortable in the smallest size on me…
You’re probably sick of the Serpentine Mitts by now, but they’re my current travel knitting and so when I don’t have the time to log at home, that’s what I have with me for photos.
I am binding off the top of the second mitt (again), and this time I’m in the right spot. I should have these finished by the end of the week. I hope.
Argh. Or oops. Or darn it! Or some other frustrated sound goes here.
I was knitting merrily along on my Serpentine Mitts, chatting happily at Knit Group, and not paying much attention because it’s an easy knit. Right? Right.
Go ahead. Laugh. You know what happens next.
Yup. A mistake.
Can’t see it? Here, how’s this:
I skipped the last bit of the cable pattern. Quite accidentally, too. I got to the right number of thumb stitches, and mistakenly thought I was done with the cable. So I knit the end ribbing and bound off, and then held the two mitts together and tried to figure out why they were different lengths.
Alas, now I have to rip out a bound-off edge and add the rest of the cable. Ah well. It could be worse. I could have also finished the thumb before getting to this point…
Just a quick WiP Weds post today…
I will have an FO post for the DROPS sweater soon. It’s finished, I just need to write tr post.
I will also have an FO post for the Serpentine Mitts soon. They are not finished, but it won’t take long!
So it turns out that I missed the release day of a book I’ve been highly anticipating: Dreamveil by Lynn Viehl. (It came out yesterday.) I think I will be hitting up a bookstore today.
In the meantime, here’s her highly amusing list of 10 things you will NOT find in Dreamveil.
And now, on to the knitting.
I’m just going with one knitting project today: the Serpentine Mitts. Why? Because this is the only project where there has been noticeable change.
Mitt #1 is finished! (My DROPS sweater is still in progress, and doesn’t show much change. Same with the Serendipity Stole and the Mochi Entrelac socks. The new needle has arrived for the Sky Socks, but I haven’t wound the new yarn yet so haven’t cast on. So, the mitts it is!)
These are going really quickly. I love them. And they’re super stretchy! They fit me, but will also fit the recipient, who has smaller hands than I do. I’m going to have to make more of these later… maybe the rest of my family wants mitts for Christmas presents? I think they do.
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So it’s Wednesday, and I have knitting WiPs to show off! Hooray! (But this is a picture heavy post. Sorry!)
First we have the DROPS Sweater:
It’s going pretty well. it seems like it’s taking FOREVER, but then I remind myself that this is the entire sweater knit all at once. It’s not just the back, or just the fronts. It’s all of it. I’ve even finished the seams (about 16 stitches worth total) so there’s only sewing in of a couple ends and adding the buttons left to do once I cast off.
Next up: the Mochi Entrelac Socks. There isn’t much exciting progress on these, but they’re still going.
Then a new project, the Little Sky Socks for my niece.
The problem here is that I don’t have enough leftovers of the yarn I started with to make them big enough for the kiddo. So, I cast off so that I have a practice sock, and then will be using different yarn to continue with.
Last knitting WiP for today is the Serpentine Mitts.
(Yes, that is a JessaLu box bag in that photo…)
These will be a gift, but I suspect that when I’m done with them I’ll be knitting another pair. I love them.
So does the cat…
And last, we have the Babette blanket (which is a crochet project, not a knitting one).
I do love the way this is turning out. Though I am also trying to not crochet all of it at once, since there is more sock yarn in progress that will be leftover semi-soon and can be added to the Babette blanket if I have a little patience.
Patience and I don’t usually get along, so this should be interesting.
