Thursday, February 5, 2004

Congratulations Amy! You won the Christmas stocking booklet! I've emailed you for your snail mail address. Thanks to everyone for signing up. I found another booklet to give away - the Philosopher's Wool sock book by the Sockguy. Give me a week or two to get some photos from it scanned and then stop back to sign up for the drawing.







Here is the first Poetry Mitten in progress. The pattern is from the Nov/Dec 1995 issue of Piecework and uses Nature Spun fingering weight and size 0 dpns. I'm pretty close to gauge and these are definitely not turning out to be adult size mittens. I'm also not sure I like how the lettering continues on the thumb gusset (making some letters slanted) but the pattern is quite fun. I really like to knit letters as they aren't boring. I plan to make the Pablo Neruda socks in Spanish from Socks, Socks, Socks in the future.







Here is yet another Bunnies & Carrots hat - the pattern is from Naked Sheep and this time I used Elann's Peruvian Highland wool. This one I made to be worn by a boy and I omitted the carrots. I like the Highland wool more than Nature Spun worsted and less than Cascade 220. I still have some Paton's Classic Wool to try - I believe the stuff I purchased from Smiley's still works out to be less expensive than the Highland wool.