When knitting mimics life:
I wanted to knit these mittens. No. I had to knit these mittens, and I had to start them now (said with that Veruca Salt whine). The mittens, the beautiful Druid, found on the cover of the fall issue of Vogue. I dug around in the stash, and found what I thought would be the perfect yarn, some Rowan Felted Tweed in a rusty orange color. Yes! Casted on, and I was off.
Loving every minute of it until….
I had a couple of inches of the actual cabling done. I couldn’t see my lovely cables at all. Now I loved the yarn, and I loved the pattern, but this just wasn’t working for me. Who wants to do all that work and not even be able to see it? Why not just knit plain ol mittens? I know! More swatchinig was done.
You see that one on top? That’s some handspun that I did up during the Tour de Fleece (we’ll catch up there later), that I totally fell in love with during the swatching process. Now it wasn’t right at all for the mittens, it was striping a bit too much for my taste, but I had to turn it into something now! (again said in the wonderful Veruca Salt whine). And so it was.
Pattern: Beech Wood by Ilga Leja
Yarn: Emerald Island from Spunky Eclectic 20% Alpaca/Corriedale Blend - 3 ply at 295 yards 3 7/8oz (113g)
Ravelry details found here
The mittens, they are coming along quite nicely :)
The one good thing about not blogging for so long is I actually have a back log of things to post…lol so you all come back now ya here :)
Posted in Knitting, Spinning, Done and Gone, Scarfs, Mittens on Oct 7th, 2008
Why hello there! It’s great hearing from you! Your cowl, dahlin, is Fantabulous! I know exactly what you mean about having a back log of things to post. Oh boy do I! Anyway, it was great hearing from you, and I’ll be around to check those mittens.
Great to have you back! I’ve missed you immensely. And it is nice to see what you’ve done during your blogging break!
I totally favourited that cowl in ravelry, because it’s SO gorgeous! I think you are under-selling the gold swatch for the mitts- Looks really great to me!
Gorgeous cowl! I can’t wait to see the finished mittens.
Great cowl! I’m on a bit of a cowl kick right now myself. The new mittens look great too. Nice to see you here again!
Do you do blankets? My dog needs a new blanket. Can you hook him up (no pun intended)
Make it big, because he’s pretty big (140 lbs.) And make it taste really bad, he eats everything.
Thanks…..
Ohhh! I missed you! *hugs* I wish you were here.
The swatche are beautiful but that cowl is DIVINE. Great job, bring it around to show off, I promise not to drool on it. :P
That cowl is so pretty!
Seems like everyone disappeared for a spat. I’m trying to get back into the swing of it too.
Gorgeous cowl! Can’t wait for the mitten reveal.