I'm in a knitting backwater.
I have reverted to working up a little felted bag, with a view to selling it one day in December at the craft fair to a doting grandmother, for her one of a kind granddaughter.
That's what I SAY I'm doing, but really I'm staving off insanity.
I finished up all my little knitting projects that had been waiting in line and found myself projectless and just a little adrift. I always revert to felted bags when I'm in a knitting panic. I need to do some better planning and have projects lined up like little soldiers so I can get right into the next one when I'm finished with something. But silly me, the other day I decided I'm not going to buy any more new yarn until I have knitted up my leftovers. Not ALL my stash mind you, just the balls of leftovers.
This narrows the possibilities quite a bit I don't mind telling you.
The last project I buttoned up was my pair fingerless gloves that are part of the Knitting Guild Challenge this month. I made five fingerless gloves. Not a five fingered fingerless glove, but five actual gloves. I ended up with one wearable pair.
How did this happen you say?
Well, I had finished the first, a sort of 'make it up as you go along' one and was starting on the second while on jury duty. As I was walking the halls during a break, I noticed a young woman who had a broken wrist with a cast on it. That cast looked almost precisely like my fingerless glove that was tucked away in my knitting bag. I walked down the hall thinking hard, and then turned around and walked back and handed her the glove. I told her that it was just TOO much of a coincidence that she had a cast on one hand and I had one finished fingerless glove in my possession. I felt that I HAD to give it to her. It only seemed right.
She was delighted. It fitted her cast perfectly, covering it up almost completely. I was bemused at the synergistic nature of the surreality of the highly unlikely and slightly freaky situation.
Ergo, when I finished the second glove, I only had one left.
So I started another pair with a different pattern in mind and finished it, only to find it was a wee bit too tight on me thumb, and the stitches stretched too much across me palm.
SO, I started ANOTHER pair, this time getting the fit right. Finished the second one and now have a pair.... though you only get to see one, because I can't take a picture of both my hands at once. You will have to take my word for it, that this one has a mate.
[album 65561 Glove2.JPG]
The tomato plant is a freebie. Just thought I'd throw it in for fun. It's one of the ones that didn't give up the chlorophyl and keel over.
I learned to do the 'mattress stitch' with this pattern. I ADORE the mattress stitch. It is like magic. The seam it creates is virtually invisible. That's a handy little trick to have in my knitting pocket I can tell you...
Alrighty then.
"Confound it Drusilla, glove me."
Kudos to anyone who can tell me where that quote comes from.
;-)
I have reverted to working up a little felted bag, with a view to selling it one day in December at the craft fair to a doting grandmother, for her one of a kind granddaughter.
That's what I SAY I'm doing, but really I'm staving off insanity.
I finished up all my little knitting projects that had been waiting in line and found myself projectless and just a little adrift. I always revert to felted bags when I'm in a knitting panic. I need to do some better planning and have projects lined up like little soldiers so I can get right into the next one when I'm finished with something. But silly me, the other day I decided I'm not going to buy any more new yarn until I have knitted up my leftovers. Not ALL my stash mind you, just the balls of leftovers.
This narrows the possibilities quite a bit I don't mind telling you.
The last project I buttoned up was my pair fingerless gloves that are part of the Knitting Guild Challenge this month. I made five fingerless gloves. Not a five fingered fingerless glove, but five actual gloves. I ended up with one wearable pair.
How did this happen you say?
Well, I had finished the first, a sort of 'make it up as you go along' one and was starting on the second while on jury duty. As I was walking the halls during a break, I noticed a young woman who had a broken wrist with a cast on it. That cast looked almost precisely like my fingerless glove that was tucked away in my knitting bag. I walked down the hall thinking hard, and then turned around and walked back and handed her the glove. I told her that it was just TOO much of a coincidence that she had a cast on one hand and I had one finished fingerless glove in my possession. I felt that I HAD to give it to her. It only seemed right.
She was delighted. It fitted her cast perfectly, covering it up almost completely. I was bemused at the synergistic nature of the surreality of the highly unlikely and slightly freaky situation.
Ergo, when I finished the second glove, I only had one left.
So I started another pair with a different pattern in mind and finished it, only to find it was a wee bit too tight on me thumb, and the stitches stretched too much across me palm.
SO, I started ANOTHER pair, this time getting the fit right. Finished the second one and now have a pair.... though you only get to see one, because I can't take a picture of both my hands at once. You will have to take my word for it, that this one has a mate.
[album 65561 Glove2.JPG]
The tomato plant is a freebie. Just thought I'd throw it in for fun. It's one of the ones that didn't give up the chlorophyl and keel over.
I learned to do the 'mattress stitch' with this pattern. I ADORE the mattress stitch. It is like magic. The seam it creates is virtually invisible. That's a handy little trick to have in my knitting pocket I can tell you...
Alrighty then.
"Confound it Drusilla, glove me."
Kudos to anyone who can tell me where that quote comes from.
;-)