Between fighting with leaves and these mittens I really don't have very much to show.
These mittens are for my friend Elaine. She's been having the devil of a time with pesky 'squirrels' eating her bird seed so....I thought I'd incorporate the 'Sweedish squirrel pattern' on to the 'vespergayle mitten pattern.'
Well it worked okay...but...I just wasn't happy with the result...I just thought there was too much going on. (Although my daughter and eldest grandson loved the squirrels running around the top of the mitten and said maybe I could put squirrels on their stuff! No fear!! [heehee])
Anyhow, I put the mittens on the back burner for awhile and just picked them up and started knitting them again yesterday. I mean I had ripped them out and revised them so many times they were starting to get grubby and I was actually fed up, sick and tired of them!
As you can see I ordered some Christmas yarn for socks for myself but I won't be able to start them them for awhile as I still have to do socks for James and slippers for William.
I'm really not feeling any pressure about getting all my knitting done for Christmas even though I decided to fool around with a perfectly good pattern. Why did I do that? Never ever again..um...I hope not!!!
Maybe, with all the Christmas ads already I should be feeling under pressure...bah-humbug!!!
Happy knitting.
Mags
4 comments:
Baa Humbug! Don't let the commercialism "sp"word? get to you. We as people shouldn't let the ads and money hungry Grinche's still our Christmas from us. If you don't have a unique handmade, ART, gift finished by the 25th. So what, if the person on the receiveing end is like me, they will appreciate it anytime you get through with it. No matter the calander date. Knit with contentment, happiness & peace, now & always. Your friend,
Tammy by the way all of your knitting is wonderful!
I am definitely going to put some squirrels on *my* stuff! Where did you find those colors? Droooool...
Just wanted to say, "HEY", like Goober. :)
Good Morning Mags,
Just got up early w/ Teddy as he is a early riser. And smelling coffee brewing from the ole' pot.
I took that post off, my readers had no interest & it was a long post, no pictures and I didn't like looking at it. It was just temp anyway, testing the waters w/the idea. When my son ever comes for a visit, I'll be seeing about setting an online store, Amazon or Etsy maybe? We will see. The mittens and socks always look great. All the stranding, I don't have much patience for, but love the look,especially for mittens. Have a wonderful day!tammy
I inventoried the mags, I have 31 Interweave Knits, 18 Knitters, & 14 Piecework. I'll be going through knitting books, that I don't think I'll need anymore too.
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