More fetching than before

I have started another pair of fetching mitts. This time, they are for my mom, whose birthday is coming up shamefully soon. I really should have started them earlier, but my thesis got in the way. Well, as she is my mother, she will continue in her long-suffering and have to be understanding and patient to those who want to make handmade gifts. I did finish knitting the square to make her cabled eyepillow...which reminds me... I need to block that tonight so that I can sew it closed around the stuffing tomorrow.

The new pair of fetchings are being made from patons variegated yarn from Joanns because it was a pretty color, and similar enough in weight to what I used for mine that I felt safe not swatching for the mitts. I dropped from the size 6 needles that I used for mine to a size 5, to account for my mother having far daintier hands than I do. Besides, the mitt knit on 6's was definitely not tight on me, and I don't want the mitts to be huge on my mom.

I will try to remember to take pictures before I send them off with birthday love. I hope my mom will be pleasantly surprised, because she doesn't know that I have conquered the knitting needles, and am now forcing them to do my bidding instead of running from them in abject terror and dismay. Also, here is a little picture of mitts from my own pattern that I knit for my graduate thesis costume design. They were only the second thing I ever knit, and the first pattern that I made. Simple, I know, but it thrilled me none-the-less.

Wow, okay, so I am now blogging. I can't believe it. First e-mail, than websites, then Myspace, and now I have a blog. Should there be any reason for anyone I know not to keep in touch? I think not! Also, for those of you wondering about the title of blog. Here's the reason for it. I don't really have one. I couldn't think of anything reallly cool, nada, zip, zilch. So, I thought back over recent qoutes that I have liked, and pulled one that had something to do with costumes from my thesis design show. That would be Twelfth Night for those who don't recognize the quote. It is said by Feste, and is this cool layered meaning thing where he means points as in reasons and points as in laces holding his clothing together, and then I thought, hey, the two points could also be knitting needles, and since knitting is the reason that got me to start a blog, that's kind of cool. (For those of you who have not yet met my random and wandering style of informal online writing, this is it. Get used to it if you plan on trying to read anything else I write on here) So, the title has everything I like in it, ironic jokes, double meanings, Shakespeare, costumes, knitting, literature, history, and wasn't too overly long for me to use. Whew, there it all is. I will be putting pictures and stuff up about my personal projects and other work soon. However, think none the less of me for being slow about things, because aside from the fact that I knit very slowly anyway, I am in my final semester of grad school, so I am focusing on all things thesis, jobhunting, and school right now. For people interested in seeing what else I have floating around on the great wide web, you can head over to my professional page. I also have a Myspace as I said before, but you can't see it unless you ask me nicely... and I actually know who you are.