anticipation

Advice: Taken.
Attitude: Readjusted.
Knitting: Back On Track.

Apparently, I do take requests. This weekend, between shopping, treasure hunting and other insanity, I whipped up two (2) slippers sized specially for the Hubs.

Pre Felt: Way Too Large For Me


That would be a seven inch cuff on these babies. Another custom request.


Zoë was very interested during the drying process. Wet wool is very, well... wet. Time allotment for drying is muy bueno.


It took two trips through the "heavy" cycle of the Maytag and one through the rinse. I think it came out well. Even then, one was an inch longer and had to be felted some more. Lots of old towels went into the making of these slippers. Literally, in the wash with the pillowcase of wet wool.

Post Felt: the "Armored Boot" winter fashion
(I can't describe how amused he is by the form they took. It has to do with EQ, I think...)


Pattern: Fuzzyfeet from Knitty!
Yarn: 1.5 skeins each Cascade 220 in Navy and Some Kind Of Green (Tags lost to the stash, i.e., forever.)
Needles: US 10.5 Clover DPN's.

I held two colors of yarn together when I knit these for extra thickness and for super matching of the bathrobe, a blue and green plaid. I tried them on myself and they are very warm.
Mission accomplished.

While knitting these I realized that I'm a moron. Not that this is news to anyone. I was so sure I had never knit anything like this before. Then I remembered.
I've knit socks before.
I've knit socks on DPN's.
I've knit this pattern before.

Green? Very. Comfy? Verily.
These babies, circa January 2006, come complete with rounded toe because the directions of "graft together" meant "break the yarn and thread through remaining six stitches, then pull close and weave the end in like hell on the inside" to my newb knitter mind, vice the kitchner graft I maimed with the second pair.
I kinda like it this way.

I was at a loss for what to do next, so I pulled out starsky. Yeah, it was that bad. I set out with good intentions. All I have left to do is finish the last 12 inches or so on the belt, sew up the sleeves and attach them to the sweater, and knit the collar onto the body.
Then something new came into my life.
I can't even begin to tell you how happy it makes me. I'll attempt to show you. But trust that the picture doesn't do it justice.

The yarn is Noro Silk Garden, Color 208, Lot A. The scarf pattern is Shifting Sands created by and available at the blog of the one and only Grumperina.
I must have cast on six different scarf and stitch combinations before settling on this. That's how excitable and nervous I am about using this yarn. Also, I wanted something that was moderately reversible. Imagine how delighted I was at discovering I like the back side to this pattern just fine. It's really the color that does it for me. And the cable pattern totally roxxors and is super easy to do without a cable needle.

All I want to knit right now is this scarf, until it's six feet long or I run out of yarn, whichever comes first. But this is not the time for selfish knitting. Christmas is coming. And I have stuff to knit for other people. I think?

I'm too lazy to go to the hardware store, so I'll knit up some socks for my father-in-law. I visited a new to me yarn store and picked up some more Lorna's Laces for such a purpose. I'm thinking something vintagey. Published in a book by a woman. Possibly named Nancy.

Yes, these will do fine.