2 posts tagged “winter”
Hello lovelies! Sometimes I use Flickr as a blog instead of posting here on my craft blog. That is because there are more of my crafty friends on Flickr than there are on Vox and they can easily post comments there. So, before I forget...
Here are some fingerless mitts I've been knitting for my mom. She says that the hospital, in which she receives her chemotherapy treatments, is as cold as an ice box. So, I wanted to make her some nice hand warmers out of the lovely cashmere and silk light-fingering-weight yarn that Amy of www.MadelineTosh.com hand-dyed for me. It has been a lovely experience! The yarn, plus KnitPicks size 0 circular needles and a sock pattern that I adapted to sprout a nice, graduated thumb gusset has yeilded an exceedingly smooth knitting week. The sock pattern, "Spring Forward" by Linda Welch, is found here on Knitty. My Ravelry page has some preliminary notes for this project here. Once I have tested my notes on the second mitt, I'll post instructions (free gratis, of course) for adding the thumb gusset, thus turning them into 'Hand Springs' fingerless mitts.
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My friend Brenda brought the hat that I knitted for her to our Fiber Therapy group so that I could get a photo of it.
It's the Robin's Egg Blue Hat by Rachel Iufer. I used yarn that I recycled from an Abercrombie and Fitch Sweater Coat.
