Monday, October 26, 2009

been busy, too

These mittens and hats will be on their way to San Francisco today. You'll recognize the green and lavender Blue Sky super bulky as leftovers from the baby blanket project from earlier this year. The hats went really fast on #15 needles using the "Really Warm Hat" pattern from www.knittingschooldropout.com. The Blue Sky mittens are "Outsider Mittens" from www.spudandchloe.com. They worked up fast, of course, except that knitting the super bulky yarn down to a tighter gauge made my hands hurt.

The other four pairs of mittens are all from Ann Budd's Knitter's Handy Book of Patterns with the thumb attachment tweaked to eliminate the hole and the need for darning it together where the thumb meets the hand. I think darning is for worn items--it rankles me to need to do it on newly created things. The yarn is bulky Icelandic Lopi for the mittens on the ends and SERRV yarn from Nepal plus sock yarn for interest for the others. These mittens actually took no more time than the super bulky ones even though there are more stitches simply because the yarn moved more easily on the needles.

The mittens were great on-the-go and sit-and-wait projects for me. I was so pleased to turn down time into productive time this way. Now to pick up that baby blanket again . . .

--Becky

6 comments:

GenKnit said...
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Reed said...

Hi Becky,

Simply lovely. Thank you for showing us.

Reed

Irishrose51 said...

You do knit fast. And I love the lavender and green combination.

Cathy said...

I've got several skeins of that alpaca left in my stash...the Outsider Mitten pattern looks like it will work for me. Thanks for the tip. And I'm going to check my SERRV catalog for their yarn. I don't remember seeing any & that surprises me...my eyes usually go right to it!

cti said...

what a beautiful selection of items!

Becky said...

PghCathy--

If you use the the Outsider Mitten pattern, I'd recommend picking up 2 stitches instead of just 1 where the thumb meets the hand, then decrease that extra stitch on the next round. This will prevent a gap that would need to be darned. It is definitely a quick knit.

Good luck!

--Becky

P.S. Thank you all for your encouraging comments.

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