And next in line: something from Eunny! I couldn't decide, and couldn't decide... In a stoke of complete non-originality I bought the exact colors Eunny showed them in. I've had it for many months. So it's time has come. A little bummed because I would have liked to do them magic loop, but don't want to deal with 4 balls of yarn going at once.

Fingerless gloves finished

Finally finished the fair isle fingerless gloves for one of the boys. Now I can figure out what to do next.

Fair Isle fingerless gloves

I made this first fingerless mitten for a young one yesterday. Finished it at around midnight. The chart is from Jessica Tromp's site. She has tons of charts that are just beautiful. Son picked out which chart and colors and viola'!

More gloves for me!

Look at what my LYS owner found for me!!! She said she saw it at another shop and picked it up for me! I have seen a lot of beautiful mittens and gloves on Ravelry done with his book, I can't wait to figure out what to do first. I have a small supply of sport wight yarns I've been pulling together.

Here are my finished Bird-in-hand mittens. Bad pictures, but you get the point. I had to go out and buy embroidery thread to do the detail on the birds. I tried to use the same yarn but my hubby said he couldn't tell what they were. They were kind of muddled. I think they are pretty, they don't feel very roomy in the finger area. I used more of a DK weight yarn, Lamb's Pride superwash. The color is Blaze and it has a heathered look to it in the skein. That's why I liked it. You can't see the heather in the colorwork though. But I like them and will wear them.

So one of the boys liked the looks of my fingerless gloved and said he'd wear them if I made him some. Actually he said he'd wear them "all the time", which hasn't happened, because he's here right now and they're by the phone keeping the counter warm.
These were made in one evening, all with chunky stash, so it was great. I consider them a freebie.

Fetching

These are the first fingerless gloves I've made and I love them. I thought I would still be cold in them, but somehow they do keep me toasty. They are made out of beautiful baby llama that I purchased for a swap partner, then decided that it wasn't what she had actually requested. It has beautiful purple flecks to it, but my camera is crap. The pattern is simple, but as I found out after the fact from reading on Ravelry, they could be longer toward the knuckles. Maybe another cable repeat. But I still like them and will use them. Check them out if you haven't already. Fetching on Knitty.

Ready for more snow...

Just in time for spring I have completed 3 more pair of mittens. I wish I could show them to you but #2 son is in Spain with my camera! He comes back tomorrow. I finished my Bird-In-Hands, a gorgeous pair of baby llama Fetchings, and since I love my fingerless Fetchings, and #3 son liked the looks of them, I just whipped up a pair for him. Not exactly Fetchings, just striped plain fingerless gloves. Will post pix as soon as I can, I don't like posting without pictures. But I have definitely been knitting my fingers off. I haven't spent a lot of time without needles in my hands lately.

I have finally uploaded my recent pictures to Flikr. I am completely stalled on the BIH mittens. Still haven't picked them up again. Am almost done with my Inga hat though.

Wow, this was my comeupance for having knitting arrogance. When they say 9 stitches per inch, maybe they mean NOT TWO??? It just didn't sound right for a felted piece. To use 10 1/2 needles and worsted yarn, 2 held together, and get 9 stitches an inch. But by God they actually meant it. It's huge! I have a lovely oven mitt now. A very expensive oven mitt, because I was holding together SWS and a $20 hank of Noro silk. I might try again, making my own pattern that's half the size, but for now I'm on to better things.