Other Mitts For D.

I'm on a roll - here is the second pair of mitts for D. They have medium grey stripes instead of blue.



This is me modeling - M.'s kind of cranky right now, so I didn't ask him to do it. You can see that this is a bigger size:


Details on Ravelry, here.

Mitts For P's Mom

But wait! There's more!

I made these for P's mom. After seeing the ones I was working on over New Year's Eve she told me that her mom could really do with a pair, so...



And modeled by P:


By the way, the band-aid on P's thumb? That's from her baby, S., kicking her only moments before. He kicked her at just the right angle to push one of her fingernails against her thumb and cut it. Dangerous baby! :-D

Details on Ravelry, here.

More Fingerless Mitts

Busy, busy, busy! I started these for D. at work to give to her grandsons. But I got sick so she'll just give them as late presents when I get them done. I finished doing the blue stripes on these at J&P's house on New Year's Eve with J, P, J's mom, and M. As you can imagine, we celebrate in a very mellow way.

This is the first pair out of two:


And here is M. kindly modeling them for me:


Details are on Ravelry, here.

Mike Slippers, Take 2

Before we left for Miami, I finished these. They're based on Mom's slipper pattern, with only very slight modifications. Her pattern says you can use 1 or 2 strands of worsted weight yarn. I used 1, and I'm not too happy with how they turned out. I'm working on another pair right now with 2 strands and they have a lot more structure. But here are the 1-strand ones, for what it's worth:





Details are on Ravelry, here.

Miami Knitting

For Xmas this year M. and I went to Miami, as usual. I was recovering from being sick and then M. got sick too. Oh well. We spent most of our time there resting at his Mom & Dad's house. To pass the time, I knitted these:

For M.:


This one's a bit blurry, but you get to see M. wearing them:


And for me:

(By the way, big thanks to my sister-in-law, A. Her style of teaching crochet left me feeling all confident about improvising. Yay!)

Details at Ravelry. For the fingerless mittens, go here. For the bag, go here.

Mom's Old Patterns

I looked on Ravelry for slipper patterns, but I didn't find any that impressed me. Not free ones, anyway. However, I did find some that were almost as good as the ones my mom used to make. Eventually, I realized that I might as well follow Mom's pattern instead of these Johnny-come-lately Ravelry ones. (No offense to anyone - I'm just amused that what's old is new, etc., etc.)

So I dug up the old notes that Mom gave me several years back, typed them up in Word, and then thought I might as well take some pictures of the old notes because, hey, mimeograph. Ancient typewriter. And an excellent glove schematic which really, really helps, because I can't read the shorthand her actual notes on the gloves are written in.

Forthwith, pictures for posterity:

Good Fingerless Mitts

I decided to do something easy to recover from the bad slippers, so I made a pair of fingerless mitts. I plan to give them to JV at work, since I saw her typing while wearing a pair of borrowed gloved a few days ago. Shocking.

Behold!

This is how they look when nobody's wearing them:


From the front, when worn:


And from the back, when worn:


I used this pattern here. More details on Ravelry, as usual.