Posted by: Steve on: April 8, 2011
The colourful fingerless mitts for Jenny are almost half done! I’m now praying that I have enough of the yarn left to at least make the second mitt. Whether they have button bands or not will very much depend on how the yarn holds out. So, the first mitt now looks like this: I won’t [...]
Posted by: Steve on: April 6, 2011
Yes, I’m afraid so! As a project to break up the strain of knitting the sweater in black, these mitts should prove effective! It’s the Fable Fingerless Mitts pattern again, but now it’s an adventure. I’m using the yarn Jenny bought for me yesterday as I only have 50g of it. These mitts will be for [...]
Posted by: Steve on: April 5, 2011
Today, while hunting for 6mm DPNs and circulars, we found a delightful shop! I say “shop” but “Emporium” would really be more appropriate! Aladdin’s Cave in fact! Halfpenny Home is magical, to be totally honest. Greeted with immense warmth, even though we’d never been there before, we were even offered a coffee/tea, as Nic (the [...]
Posted by: Steve on: March 31, 2011
Previous posts will show that I’ve had some big projects to work on. Despite that, or maybe because of it, there have been odd moments when I couldn’t , or hadn’t the energy to, work on them. To fill such moments, recently, I’ve been making myself a pair of Fable Fingerless Mitts by Sian Parker: [...]
Posted by: Steve on: March 11, 2011
I have just completed the second part of the Frog Trilogy! This time, it’s a pair of fingerless mitts. The original pattern includes wrist straps but I left them out for this particular pair. I decided not to put the frogs fully on the backs of the mitts as I thought that would look too [...]
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