Christmas Knitting

Now that my sister and her family have gotten their presents, I can show pictures. I knit fingerless mitts.

These are my sister's done in alpaca, because she has issues with wool.
From Anne at Knitspot
It's her pattern for the Fine Cabled Mitts - a really nice pattern, the yarn just doesn't show the cables well. Done on size 2 dpns, in a beautiful dove grey.



And for my niece, a different pattern for mitts, who's pattern I cannot remember, from wool that I purchased from Ebay, that has some alpaca in it, but what I do not know.



These were fast! On 7 dpns [Brittany]

I also knit dishcloths for each, and made a basket to put everything in



My first cats head basket - And about my 20th basket overall. The odd thing is, I never make them by myself - I always do it at the local library when the basket class is being held - and I'm quite competent at it, I just don't want to have to fight off the cats while making the baskets at home.

I sent chocolate, some made made sweaters from our mother that no longer fit me, and Slinky's for the fun of it.

Fall Socks Finished!

Finally - well, they've been done for several weeks now - just finally got things organized to post

Here's the socks




And when I was driving from North Manchester to Indianapolis, via US 24, I found this group of trees = looking just like my socks! I just had to stop and take a picture of it

More Jitterbug Socks

Jitterbug, as in the yarn, not the design.

These are
Beatrix Queen's Day Clog socks

Blue Parrot Colorway - a delight to knit, and to wear.

Fall!

My Fall Socks

I've gotten farther on these, which is good

But they're not done yet, and I want to wear them this fall

I know, knit rather than blog

And yes, they do need a good blocking

October Socks!

These are the October Sockamania socks

Colinette Jitterbug Florentine

A fun and easy pattern, I'm planning on making these again in '08

Fall socks

Pic coming soon - have the first one almost done - working on the gussett.

But I found the color, and thought I'd get that part posted while I have that little piece of news -

It's On Line Sierra Color - Grand Canyon Trekking (Chocolate Brown, Adobe, Gold, Black & Off-White) - Color #893

Really screams 'fall' - I'm doing a double moss stitch pattern, and so it looks like a pile of fall leaves, ready to jump into.

I know, where's the pic?

Coming, I promise!