mitts – Organizing Threads

January 29, 2012January 29, 2012

Fingerless Gloves

The problem with gloves/mitts when walking the dog — you can’t open the plastic poop bag with your fingers covered! In browsing the internet last night I found a pattern for fingerless glove that looked intriguing ( http://crochetme.com/media/p/90002.aspx). I made lacy fingerless gloves last year, but these are more solid, and they had a thumb! So this afternoon, after 4:00, I started crocheting. I had to use two different colours as I had only one ball of each colour (Queensland Collection Merino Spray – 100% extra fine merino wool; 4mm crochet hook) which wasn’t quite enough to make a pair of gloves. I was amazed at how easy the pattern was and how quickly they made up. My 9:00 o’clock the gloves were done — and I had time for supper, walking the dog and a couple of phone calls in between. Now I have to test these in “the real world.”

December 28, 2010December 28, 2010

Christmas makings

As the kids and I chose not to give each other Christmas gifts this year, but old habits die hard, I decided to make them something. I tried knitting again, and did make fingerless gloves for the wee girl, but it was looking like, at the rate I was going, it would take till Christmas 2011 to knit something for everyone, so I returned to crochet. But here is a picture of Trina wearing hers on Christmas morning. I made hers from “Stretchy Sock” yarn, 75% cotton 25% wool blend. Christine’s were in green Peruvian wool and Heidi’s in a blue and white Queensland Collection Merino Spray 100% extra fine merino wool. Christine and Trina also got headbands.

For the men I made hats. I used Diamond Lima Luxury Collection 100% Peruvian Highland Wool trimmed in Sirdar Clik Aran with wool (70% acrylic 30% wool). I used the pattern in the Fall 2009 Interveave Crochet magazine “Leaf Peeper hats” (p.62) for Simon and Masood. I made one like that for Gary, but Trina said it would need to fit under his bike helmet, so I did hte Tahoe hat (p. 54) in the Sidar Clik for him.

The little hat on the bottom of the photo is for my wee girl. Here she is modeling:

the wee model — Mina models her hat and gloves

My mother saw me making these hats and requested one, too. So I also made her one with the Sidar Clik, mostly light with the darker trim.

November 22, 2010

Knitting and more

I decided once again to attempt to knit. It’s not that I can’t do it, it just that it is not very comfortable for me, so I am slow, and my tension very uneven, thus I usually give up without finishing what I started.

This time I decided to tackle a little project: fingerless mitts for tiny hands. Using the Sirdar Click that I had used for Billie’s sweater I followed a pattern I found on the internet. What you see in the photo is #2 & 3 — the first attempt I undid after doing the second because the tension wasn’t even close! These are still too big for my little girl, I’m afraid, but she will (God willing) grow into them. Next, I want to do the adult size.

I also pulled out a project from a number of years ago — a ruffled scarf. I didn’t have enough of the original yarn to finish it, back when I was living on Ruskview Rd. So I found something close – Bernat’s Baby Sparkle. I also didn’t have the pattern, don’t remember where I found the pattern, so I tried to follow what was already done. I don’t think I did it 100% right, but it’s OK. And it is finished!

And then (why work on one thing when you can have many projects on the go at once?), I started a pair of “Adironak Socks” from the Fall ’09 Interweave Crochet magazine. I’m having a little trouble around the heel gusset, but I’m plugging away. Yarn is Kertzer’s On Your Toes (75% wool, 25% nylon with aloe vera) in shades of green.