fingerless mitts – Behind the Smile

December 26, 2008June 24, 2010

Post Holiday Pass Out

I hope everyone had a nice Christmas. We had various celebrations and all were great. My favorite meal was, of course, the deviled eggs, cheese zombies, potato soup, and egg nog that we scarfed at Jason’s house on Christmas Eve. (“Best. Christmas. Ever!”)

I made my sister a pair of fingerless mitts as a last minute Christmas gift, and they went over really well! So that was nice. Abby is an excellent person to give handknits to.

Today we went to Ikea so I could buy some stuff for the house, and I got a Poang chair and an Expedit bookshelf (this is the square 4×4 shelf – for yarn storage in the craft room!). And several injuries because apparently I am a klutz, or I was today anyway.

I was in the bathroom in one of the stalls and there wasn’t a purse hanger thing on the door, so I hung my purse* over the corner of the door, then realized there was no toilet paper so I went to find another stall and I grabbed my purse, but gouged my thumb on the extruding metal where the purse hanger should have been.

I started bleeding like a stuck pig and went to the sink where I bled all over. I finally got it slowed and wrapped in a paper towel.

Outside the bathroom, Abby nursed me back to health with magical liquid bandage and bandaids she randomly had in her purse. I don’t know how she does it! But I was more-or-less back in action thanks to her emergency supplies (and her purse isn’t that big!).

Anyway, so after that we ate lunch and went downstairs to the marketplace and I dinged my middle finger on the cart, then lost control of the cart and ran into something and bruised my stomach on the cart handle, then I dropped part of the Expedit on my foot (though that didn’t hurt so much).

We managed to get everything in the car using the power of physics and went to the house where we unloaded all my other stuff. Besides the chair and bookshelf I got a couple of cheap rugs, some wine glasses, some bag clips, a lampshade, and a big picture of a deer for the wall. (Heh.)

I only went $11 over my $500 budget, which I think is doing pretty well. And was probably all tax anyway.

We’re painting the craft room on Sunday, then on Monday my contractor is coming to rip the bathrooms and lay down linoleum, and then next Saturday we’re moving my storage unit shizzle into the place, which will be awesome!

I still need to buy three sets of curtains and one curtain rod between now and then. And get the cable and internet hooked up.

Anyway, things are moving along on that front.

^My mom made that cool purse for me for Christmas.

November 23, 2008June 24, 2010

Finished Mitts and Twilight

I finished the Roadhouse Mitts. They turned out nice, though don’t they look stupid not worn? All squished up and hinky.

Anyway, despite that, they fit great and I’m really pleased with them.

STATS: Franklin Sock Yarn from Webs in a mystery colorway dyed by the Kangaroo dyer. The color is better in these pictures, but I think my camera is having fits with darker tones in the red range. Yikes. They are really nice in real life.

THE PATTERN: Bluebell rib from Sensational Knitted Socks by Charlene Schurch over 56 stitches. Rib at edges is K3 P1 K1 P1 and K1 P1 on the thumb. I probably won’t write a pattern for them because I don’t know how to explain what I did. (“Like, knit in pattern, then make a thumb! then like stop and augh!”) Meh.

The yarn is extremely generous in yardage, so I think I will probably have enough for a pair of socks even after knitting these, which didn’t really take up that much. They’re only about 7 inches in length.

I don’t think I’m done making mitts – which is good, since I want to make gloves and mittens too.

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I went and saw Twilight today with Malvina, and it was hilarious. Much like I found the books to be like delicious literary CRACK, the movie was more of the same, with slo-mo significant glances and fog machine action and yes, sparkly vampires (complete with “sparkle” sound effects!). Anyway, my review is as follows:

LOL+!!!

November 16, 2008June 24, 2010

Fingerless Mitt Time

I made these while I watched Dexter Season 2 again (totally improved on a second viewing, btw), so I am calling them Rita Mitts after Dexter’s long-suffering girlfriend:

They turned out nice. I like the yarn. I like using the folded over cuff, they’re much stretchier than they would be with a cast on (like long tail or something) edge.

Now I’m working on some other ones that I’m calling Roadhouse Mitts (because I’m watching Supernatural Season 2) that are utilizing the bluebell stitch from Charlene Schurch’s Sensational Knitted Socks. The yarn is some weird stuff I got at the Webs booth at Stitches this year. I think it’s Kangaroo Dyer, but there was no colorway. And it’s really hard to photograph.