I finished the fetching mitts for Mom. They look pretty neat if I do say so myself... and I do. I'm also mostly finished with the eye pillow, I just need to sew the seams closed and that's that. I got in y sock books and sock yarn from knit picks, and I am excitedly now ignoring my homework to knit socks instead. Whoo-hoo. I just received a call from my usual summer employer inviting me back, so I get to play with everybody on yarn hill for lunch break this summer. I look forward to pestering my draper to help me knit things that are more intricate and infinitely more cool than I have so far. Now, I just need to find a home and a job for after July. I'm going to go ponder my thesis further (aka stare at the computer while knitting, rather than being productive.) Happy Monday to all, off to anoth great week.

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.