Topic: quick projects
I have been doing a phenomenal amount of teaching this past month. Coupled with that, 2 of our 4 parents are now ensconced in nursing homes, and another needs in-home surveillance, so we visit often. Time for blogging, and even knitting!, is hard to come by. In spite of that, I diligently started off with my holiday projects last month.
One of my daughters is involved with an Adopt-A-Family-For-Christmas project and asked if the Neighborhood Knitters could/would help. Ida and I answered the call and have been plugging along...she is making hats and I made mittens for the 3 children in the family. The mittens are pictured above.
After all these years of knitting, I have mittens down pretty pat. I use my Easy Mitten pattern, and just change the yarn and shorten the lengths knitted to make sizes smaller/larger. I took this opportunity to investigate Wee Hand sizes, and ended up rewriting the pattern to include 9 sizes. It is for sale at Countrywool.
I am also working on headbands with my handspun angora/wool leftover yarn lengths:
I've made 3 this week. There is always someone who needs something for their head once the weather gets cold, and these are fun to hand out. I keep a few ready to gift away all winter.
When the last is finished, and there are no more handspun scraps to use up, I will start on the Pointless Gloves project. I hope to make 5 pairs by Christmas. THEN, I am hoping to make two neck shawlets for my Mom and her roommate at the nursing home out of Royal (sigh) Cashmere.
Pictures will come so stay tuned!
