First up, the brightly colored fingerless mitts with a matching hat:
Next I did the large mittens with a Breast Cancer Awareness ribbon stitched on:
The purple cabled slouchy hat was envied so another one in gray was knit up for another requester:
As far as personal knitting goes, the colorful fingerless mitts were also envied so I made up a second pair for my daughter. Then I started on a second sweater for myself with some yarn I got for a great deal from DBNY. At this point, the sweater still needs one sleeve to be finished. I think the pattern turned out really nice and will be the perfect size once blocked a little. Can't wait to get back to it and finish it up! In the meantime I needed something smaller that I could take with me places, so I started up a simple shawl with some fancy yarn. It is slowly progressing as I don't work on it except when I have free time outside the house.
As if a sweater on the needles wasn't enough, I decided to cast on for my living room afghan! Ordered Brava yarn from Knit Picks in two shades of green and a brown and when it got here I just had to start... I knew I wanted to do a zig zag looking pattern, kind of old school but a little Missoni. I found a pattern on the Lion Brand website that had the stitch pattern to give me the zig zags and then I created my own sequencing of colors to get the Missoni look. I got to about 8 color changes before I realized that after 4 color changes I had dropped one of the first stitches at a color change (before I'd tied the two ends together) so I had to frog back all that way... I haven't had a chance to get back to that because I got in two more requests this week!
First up was two items, a pair of short fingerless mitts in a gray color and a slouchy hat similar to the gray one above, but in a creamy off white. It just so happened I had been developing a pattern for a cabled hat with ribs so I was able to perfect that and have it sold already. I decided to go with a simple twisted stitch rib on the mitts and wrote a pattern for those as I went. I realized after finishing the second mitt that they should really have a variation for left and right hands so I corrected that in the written pattern and ended up with two pairs! I'll be able to post the second set in my Etsy shop, so no loss to me :-) These items are finished and drying as we speak.
My next order is waiting for me to finish this to be cast on... another set of fingerless mitts (these must be really popular!) in black. They are requested to be short, simple, and with individual fingers. That will be a first for me, but I've been wanting to try for a long time so I'm looking forward to it.
And with that... I'm off to cast those on!
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