The mittens are moving along after some drama on Monday. After knitting three repeats I admitted the cables were pulling in too much.Take a look. Those cables span one half of the stitches. They should cover the whole front of the mitten. I ripped back to the ribbing and gave 8 more stitches to the […]
Month: January 2012
Yep, another new project
I started a new pair of mittens. I still have a hankering for some more cables so these will have a swirl of cables going up the front. I used the same stitch counts as I did for my Ambroso mittens since they fit well. You can see the start of the thumb gusset and […]
Nuvem and a First Look at Spring
I CO for my Nuvem last Saturday. I knit on it during my commute all week and wasn’t sure about it. I had a hard time keeping everything together on the train – a combo of fine yarn and stitch markers – and was considering frogging it. It was so bad that I chose not […]
New year, new FO
Happy new year! I toyed with the idea of doing a big retrospective, but truthfully I didn’t do all that much crafty in 2011. We did A TON of work on our house and that took a good 6-9 months of concentrated effort. So I ended 2011 in a good place – a house with […]