So, I am starting to ponder gift knitting for Christmas. In all honesty, I don’t really think too hard about gift knitting until December 15th and it’s a mad dash of insanity to finish everything up before Christmas. This dates back to 2005 when I was unemployed and had no money, but totally had a stash! So I sat around in my dark little apartment in San Antonio and knit like a fiend.
Right now I’m working on something else, something that is not for me (I know, right? I am a selfish knitter, yes I am).
Just sort of messing around with a pattern. I’m working on the second fingerless mitt and am about halfway up the cuff. It’s the second time I’m started it, because apparently I can’t count. I thought that I had cast on 60 for the above mitt, but apparently not, it is actually 54 stitches around.
The basic pattern is a picot cuff followed by a row of eyelets, then the lace pattern (I think) from the Go-With-The-Flow socks from the Interweave Favorite Socks book. I kind of made up the thumb gusset, but it turned out right, so that works. I have kind of short stubby hands (thanks, Germanic ancestors!) so the hand part of the mitt is a little long for myself.
The yarn is Pagewood Farms sock yarn. I don’t think it’s any special line from them; I bought it at TKGA (I think) a year or so ago (whenever TKGA blew through the Bay Area, since it’s different every year. It was at the Oakland Marriott). There is a lot of it – I may be able to get another pair of mitts out of it for myself, since the yarn sure is lovely.
Anyway, it’s coming along nicely – only took a couple nights of television knitting to complete. There may be something to this fingerless mitt business.
Other Christmas projects I am contemplating include two pairs of mittens and that’s pretty much it! My friends don’t seem too overly interesting in handknits, so they will most likely not be getting anything in that regard. I wish I had more crafty friends. Or rather, ANY crafty friends, haha.
So in other news, it looks like my high school class is actually going to have a 10-yr reunion. During its 11th year. Well, that’ s nice I guess. There are a few people I’d like to see with whom I lost touch after I was done at DVC and moved 2,000 miles away. Back in those olden days not everyone was on the internets (I KNOW, right?) so it makes more sense that you’d lose contact with people.
I am really sleepy. I basically am going to go home and eat dinner and watch What Not to Wear tonight. I am definitely not up for any Friday night shenanigans. Not that I ever am. 😛