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What a great idea! A hat with an opening at the top for my mini ponytail (look familiar Lori?). Maybe I will just bind off like this and leave a little airvent. Don't these look like the longest DPNs ever? I think they are.
So it was one year ago at Thanksgiving when my mom showed me how to knit (again) and I became mildly obsessed with the whole thing. We managed to turn the whole holiday into somewhat of a knitfest. I remember at one point knitting at the dining room table...
Anyways, my poor family doesn't have to deal with that this year! In honor of the one-year celebration I stayed in and did a bit of knitting! I finished my wristwarmers!
What a lame accomplishment, huh? Well at least I'm doing something! I'm also working on the Misty Garden scarf by Jo Sharp in Scarf Style. It was a big Christmas gift surprise, but then I realized that no one who reads my blog is getting this scarf or anything like it so I have nothing to lose. Check it out:
I really like this scarf! Even though I made a lot of mistakes in the first 10 inches or so, I can hardly tell. Now its easy going so I'm hoping I can finish this off and cast on for some more Christmas fun later this weekend. I have been listening to Bing Crosby's White Christmas that I got in the mail from my dad, and it sure motivated me to get going on the Christmas knitting! Now that I have this wristwarmers it is not so hard to get my fingers moving in this chilly apartment. I hope everyone had a fab Thanksgiving!
*I can't stop using the word bash ever since one of my English teachers told me it was his word of the week.
I'm going to start a new trend... I just don't have the patience to deal with this thumb anymore! I have made minimal progress on my knitting lately, but I am slowly but surely plugging through my first of 6 Christmas items. The New Year is really the big holiday here... who's going to care if their luxurious hand-knit gifts from the nicest American in town are handed over a little late?
(Notice my new tablecloth? It has totally changed my quality of life! Slowly but surely my apartment is becoming more "me." Once I make the blowout order from allposters.com with my neighbor, then things are REALLY going to take off!)
Has it really been eleven days since I've posted about knitting? Whoops! How on earth did that happen? Luckily I have my mom to remind me about such important things. I am still knitting over here, albeit it totally manic knitting. I have started some Christmas gifts and at the same time have been trying desperately to finish some wristwarmers for myself because its coooooold here! I have been temporarily sidetracked on the glove because the thumb is just not working out how I wanted it to. It turns out it is enormously huge so not only do I have to go back and knit it on smaller needles, but I think I'm going to have to do some decreases too. I've been meaning to do some research on the least visible decrease so I don't make it look like total junk. Of course I haven't actually had a chance to do that research so it has been kind of moved to the back burner. I have a huge respect for all the knitters out there who are whipping out new FOs every week or two. How do you do it?
Here is a blurry picture of progress on my glove! I have an unexpected chunk of free time tonight because my kimono lesson was cancelled, and although I know that I should be studying, I really just want to finish this glove! I figure if I made it this far, I don't REALLY need to finish the other fingers anyways. I do live in Japan where the peace sign is still cool... these could be my winter photo gloves.
Today after work I raced home and took some shots of the back of my cable sweater in the last moments of daylight. Check it out:
It is quite curly, so after taking this shot I straightened it all out with a few pins on my futon.
Taking the pictures in daylight really changes things! The color looks a lot more realistic in this shot than it did in the other ones. Here is a closeup of those lovely cables!
Now that I’ve proven to myself that I can, in fact, knit cables, I think I’m ready to take on some new challenges. But I don’t know exactly what. I guess I’ll keep plugging along on my various works in progress and reevaluate after Christmas.
In response to your question, Dad, no, I don’t just go for a walk in the neighborhood for fun. I go for 3 or 4 bike rides a day so I can take in as much scenery as I want and get all the exercise I need. This way, I have all the more time for knitting, even though it still doesn't seem to be enough.
And Mum, yes I am using the Interweave Knits Winter 2003 pattern for progressive gloves. It’s great because you can use just about any yarn at any gauge and just figure out how many stitches you need that way. It involves a little math, but so far the results have been good.
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