Showing posts with label mittens. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mittens. Show all posts

Friday, February 27, 2009

Catch Up

I've been trying to get my life back under control since New Year's. My family life has calmed down and I'm finally back on track with my degree, so I'll try to also get this blog back up and running.

So, quick rundown of the last... gosh, has it really been 5 months?

First of all, my biggest accomplishments, especially stash-wise: three blankets.







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Finally, finally my Log Cabin Blanket Actually managed to use up most of my left-over sock yarn in a crochet afghan
~280,000 stitches, ~6,000 yards of yarn, 1.5 years to finish ~4,700 yards, less than a month to finish
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Hemlock Ring Blanket, which I still have to block properly, I just don't have enough space here
less than 1,000 yards, a month to finish

For winter I needed a warm set of accessories. Five things made out of four skeins of Malabrigo Worsted in Azul Profundo. Very useful when I have to go grocery shopping on my bike.







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Coronet Headband Evangeline Fingerless Gloves
basic_mittens_done here_and_there_cables_beginning
Simple ribbed gloves Here and There Cables
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Calorimetry

At first I only wanted to have cabled things in this set, but then the ribbed gloves were the most sensible thing to knit and the Calorimetry followed since I still had enough yarn. I really like that all of those match in colour, if not in pattern and they have been really useful. Especially the scarf is incredibly warm (even though I left out one repeat) and the Calorimetry has been getting *a lot* of use.

I've also knit four pairs of socks, but since I can't show my favourite pair yet (it was a test knit for Sock Madness), I'll just skip those here. One thing I want to show, however, is my French Market Bag. I have been meaning to knit this since I saw the pattern in Knitty and finally realised that my New Lanark Aran would be perfect for this. The bag has now become my to-knit-soon yarn bag.

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If you'd like to have more information on the projects I mentioned here, or would like to see what else I have knit, I did keep up with my Ravelry page despite my hiatus here.