Once a month

Set the bar low, and maybe I'll trip over it!

I'm still working on the gloves for dneph...for some reason, I have not had the time I'd like to work on them. I have so many other things I want to do, but these are my current albatross.

I wanted to make a little sweater for my niece, but that too is not happening :)

I have my present list, and I need to get started on it.  I think I need a day of organizing projects, with yarn and needles, and then just busting through them.  

I saw the new posters for The Hobbit today, and several of the dwarves have knitted fingerless gloves!  Even Gandalf looks to have a stockinette pair.  The others seem to be in seed stitch, and one looks like it's actually crocheted, or possibly sideways garter stitch.  If I could get my yarn together, I think I could recreate them.  One pair looks like my pair of "this and that" mitts, so I should probably write that up asap.

That's pretty much my life right now.  I work, come home, wash dishes, go to sleep, go back to work.  I'm really only getting knitting done on the bus, which is just an hour a day.  Ack!

Lady Grey is doing well.  She's 13 months old now, and getting so big!  She's also growing her winter coat, so I have to be vigilant about matts.  She has two that I haven't been able to cut out because they're right under her front legs and I just can't get to them.  I still take her out for her walks, and she's progressed to walking in the front yard now too.  She loves chasing rabbits and squirrels (though I don't let her catch them), but she also just likes to sit outside, with her tail wrapped around her legs, and look at everything.  She's such a wonderful kitty.

Twilight

I decided to make another pair of computer gloves for DP. The crochet ones I'd made last year were looking a bit worse for wear, since he wears them every day. I have some yarn that I spun from a roving I'd gotten from the Loopy Ewe. I bought it because it reminded me of twilight in summer:



He didn't want fingers or a thumb, so that he could have full movement of his fingers while typing. I decided on the easiest type of mitts, the ribbed tube with a slit for the thumb. Cast on 32, rib 2x2 for 20 rounds. Next row, kfb, kfb, rib to end. Rib 2 rows. Next row, kfb, k1, kfb, k1. Rib 2 rows. Move 3 k stitches from beginning of row to end, and work back and forth in rows 13 times. Then start working in rounds again for 13 rows. Bind off with Jeny's surprisingly stretchy bind off.

I think they turned out rather well:



and



The nice thing is that they are tighter in the wrist than in the palm. It gives wrist support without binding the movement of the fingers in any way. Not bad for a day's work!