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So I made some more shark mittens:
I did tell you you were going to see a lot of them. These are made in acrylic though, as the customer has a wool sensitivity. I have another wool pair knit in pieces (mittens with fins and unblocked mouths) and I’m currently to the beginning of the thumb gusset in another pair. And then I have another pair after that. And two people who want to be alerted when I relist the pattern.
Gonna need to order some more Cascade Eco.
So… I made some shark mittens.
Shark Mittens, Cascade Eco and Valley Yarns Northampton, six 6/4 mm needles. Two at a time magic loop.
In the last week or so, I’ve gotten five orders for shark mittens (one person for two pairs!). Expect to see them a fair amount over the next week or two. Sorry. (Not really.)
So… I forgot to blog yesterday. Bad NaBloPoMo participant. Oh well. One of these days I’ll do two posts to make up for yesterday. But not today because it’s already after four and I have plans tonight. What plans, you ask?
HARRY POTTER PREMIERE, OF COURSE.
That’s right, folks, I’m going to the premiere of the seventh Harry Potter movie because I am completely obsessed with Harry Potter. I’m sort of dressing up (I’ll be Slytherin-themed with a grey and green striped sweater dress and black tights) and I’ll be drawing a dark mark on my arm. Hopefully I’ll have some pictures of other people’s costumes for tomorrow. : )
As for the WIP:
It’s the Cloud Bolero for a WWFY swap. I think I’ll be casting off soon, but I have to make sure it’s long enough for the recipient’s daughter. I also finished the mitten part of a pair of shark mittens (still need to do mouths and fins). That’s the first of three pairs that were ordered from my Etsy shop the other day. One of them will be in acrylic though, which my brother is sending me from home since I don’t have any grey acrylic yarn here at school.
Is anyone else going to see Harry Potter tonight? Are you dressing up? Tell me in the comments! (No, really, I’m interested. I love people who dress up for movie premieres.)
Before I go into today’s subject matter, I just want to note that my shark mittens were featured on the Meet Me at Mike’s blog! And I’m super chuffed about it. : )
Anyway, so I got the yarn yesterday for another WWFY swap that I am super excited about. I’m knitting for Stuffycat, and she sent six skeins of Bugga:
The brown that’s partially balled will be made into Cookie A’s Monkey socks and the other two will be made into Kitty Hawk, a steampunk-errific set of mitts and a hat.
In return, I received the following three skeins of yarn:
And I already know what I’m going to knit with them. The blue will be made into Viper Pilots and the other two are for my own set of Kitty Hawk mitts and hat. Yay!
I have a bunch of other things I have to knit before I can start any of these (including THREE PAIRS of shark mittens I got orders for yesterday), but I can’t wait to be able to knit with the Bugga. It’s super soft and lovely. And now I have three!
I currently have two wips in progress for a WWFY trade. As I mentioned before, the trade was for three items. I finished the Aviatrix hat, which I showed you the other day. I started the second item yesterday:
A Cloud Bolero in Claudia Handpainted Chunky. Unfortunately, the yarn sent wasn’t quite enough–I am about three rows after the sleeve bind off with no more yarn. Fortunately, OliviaGoddess is sending a coordinating yarn to finish the bolero with.
I just today started the third item, a pair of Improvisation fingerless mittens:
I’m using Debbie Bliss Cashmerino Aran and knitting them two at a time. I split the ball in two using my wonderful new scale. : ) Yay.
I finished another thing today. A pair of baby shark mittens for an Etsy customer:
Pattern: Deep Blue Sea, my shark mittens pattern
Yarn: Cascade Ecological Wool and Vally Northampton
Needles: US 6/4 mm
They’re tiny and adorable and took like five minutes to knit. I love shark mittens, especially baby ones.
In other news, I’m considering listing custom dino mittens on my Etsy. I only have one skein of green Lamb’s Pride, so I can only do like two pairs before I have to order more, but does anyone think there’d be interest? I know the dino mitts pattern has sold a lot less well than the sharks, but there’s no harm in listing the mittens I guess.
In other news: Another NaBloPoMo post accomplished.
I finished the first of three WWFY items for OliviaGoddess. It’s a hat for a toddler.
Pattern: Aviatrix
Yarn: Jojoland Rhythm Superwash
Needles: US 7/4.5 mm, US 9/5.5 mm
Mods: None. Knit as written
So… I’m totally in love with this hat. LOVE IT. It’s an adorable design, and the chin strap is ingenious for babies. ADORABLE. So much so that I will have to make one for myself (but bigger, obviously0. I’m sensitive about things on my neck/under my chin, so instead of the long strap connecting to the side, I might make two shorter straps, one on each side and I won’t fasten them. I might still sew on buttons though.
I knit this hat up in a couple of hours: it’s SUPER fast. And the yarn, which is something that I’ve never used cause it’s a little out of my price point (but was sent to knit the hat for the recipient), is soft and squooshy and wonderful and I wish I could afford it more. Yay.
Tomorrow: another FO probably. Cause I knit like the wind.
This post is a bit late in the day, but still on today, so my NaBloPoMo record is still good.
Anyway, I’ve made some progress on the boyfriend sweater:
I finished a sleeve and attached it and am currently working on the second sleeve. I seem to have misplaced my last skein of yarn, so I’ll have to locate that before I get too much farther along, but I think it’s possible I might have enough yarn. Maybe. Hopefully.
That’s how long the boyfriend and I have been together. Tomorrow is our official anniversary, but since he’s going home tomorrow to take the GRE, we’re celebrating tonight with dinner and a movie (followed by an unrelated party with our friends). The morning of our celebratory today was alright quite lovely–we slept in til noon, woke up slowly, had a quick breakfast then went for a walk (in the middle of which I obtained a delicious white chocolate mocha + extra shot of espresso).
Speaking of the boy, I have been working on his birthday sweater somewhat off and on. I finished the body up to the armpit and have started a sleeve:
That’s 15.5 of the 22 inches I’m going to need for the sleeve and almost an entire ball of Comfy Bulky. I have two balls left to do the rest of this sleeve plus a whole other sleeve and about 3/4 of a ball attached to the body for the top part of the body of the sweater. I think it’s pretty safe to say I’m going to need more yarn. I think I’ll put a post up on the Ravelry DS/ISO board today.
Happy Saturday all!
Day three of NaBloPoMo! Whoo!
I believe I mentioned it yesterday, but I started a sock. A Leyburn sock. A Leyburn sock in SWTC Tofutsies. It looks like this so far:
I like it. I had to undo the bit after the heel and reknit it cause I made it too tight the first time, but other than that, the fit is pretty good. I had wanted to knit these two at a time, but I wound my yarn into a single ball. I’m getting a scale for my birthday (which is in December but I’ll probably get it sometime this month) from my sister, and once I do I can split single balls, but until then, I don’t want to guess, so I’m just knitting one at a time.
In other news: I’ve started watching Bones. I’ve caught the odd episode before, but I never watched it consistently, so now I am. I’m about halfway through the first season (watching it online on Netflix), and I do like it a lot. One of these days I’ll get around to knitting Traveling Woman and Temperance (I already made Saroyan).
Stitch, Brinn, Stitch! 