Greetings Unravelers!
After a l-o-n-g night and full day of knitting, the mitts just need the ends woven in and they will be done and in the mail shortly! Success is sweet but tiring! Ha! The pattern is Anne Hanson’s Fallberry Mitts from Knitty.com. Sadly, I do not remember what the yarn is – but I love the color! Luckily, this was a quickly memorized pattern which was a very good thing!
I do have one or two other bits of holiday knitting I would still like to get done and somehow I imagined I would finish the mitts as well as the last 10-ish rows done on another gift…silly me! At least these final tiny projects don’t need to meet a mail deadline – so I am not yet without hope!
All this knitting time means I have moved through another audio book – I finished My Antonia! and thoroughly enjoyed it! Cather’s writing is warm and inviting as she describes life on the Nebraska prairie. 4-Stars and I highly recommend!
I also finished Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl. I was not wowed by this book, but still – I think it was a book I should have read. It got 3 stars.
There are several more books I would like to finish yet this year – we shall see if I can accomplish that and next week, I will share my Best Of 2018 Books!
There are still a few knitting days before Christmas, but I have begun to think about some selfish knitting – eagerly, in fact! Haha! And, my failed Tegna yarn will be swatched again to see if it might work for a new sweater that Marie Greene is releasing on December 31 – she will be leading an 8-week knit along around her new sweater! If you have never knit a sweater but want to, I highly recommend Marie’s patterns – they are easy to follow, and her tips and tricks have proven most useful in my sweater journey! PLUS!! This sweater pattern can be adapted for several gauges! So, if you (like me) struggle with gauge – do not fear! Marie has done the knitty math for us, so we can knit a sweater that fits!
That is all I have for this week! Are you still trying to finish some Christmas knits? As always, If you wrote a post to share today – please leave your link below!
Thank you!
I am so impressed that you knit those mitts in basically a day! They are beautiful and I hope the post office cooperates. I’m going to finish my second pair of mitts today; you’ve given me motivation, so I thank you!
I am impressed too. I started a pair of fingerless mitts earlier this year but didn’t get far. Maybe in 2019?
I am going to try designate a not-too-distant day off as a KNITTING DAY! I don’t think I’ve spent an entire day knitting in years.
I am trying to kitchener a toe to finish off a pair of socks… but it’s been days! Hopefully, this evening. Reading, too, has been S-l-o-w.
Well done! Now I hope you can rest and relax a bit.
I am trying to finish up a couple of gnomes for my brother and his fiancee. I was trying to get them done by the end of the week so they could open then on Christmas, but I think I will make myself crazy if I do. So I’m going to work on them when I can and gift them when they are done (probably after we’re in Florida).
Congrats on the mitt finish. They look lovely.
The mitts are gorgeous! I’m working on socks, but no deadline – not for Christmas! On the reading front I’m halfway through the latest from Louise Penny and loving it.
It feels so good when you pop those finished projects off in the mail, doesn’t it! XO
Very pretty yarn with the fingerless success! Just reading blogs here… lots of them
Reads as though you are cooking with gas on all 4 burners: Congrats on getting those mitts done and thanks for the link to the new knit-long; I shall look and see…
Curious to know why my link is to today’s post and not just my site’s URL …as others are. Any ideas?
Cheers~
Congratulations on finishing yet another gift. I thought I was finished but decided to make a pair of fingerless mitts for a friend. They will arrive in her mailbox after Christmas but no matter. She won’t care. I’m off to check out the new sweater pattern. I like the idea of multiple gauges.
I’m amazed you finished those so quickly!
Beautiful Kat!
awesome finish, Kat! I have a few ends to weave in end, and a pom-pom to make, but otherwise, I’m done, too!
hmm, I have the pattern printed out and ready to go but never made it. Your mitts are lovely and now I need to bump that pattern up in the queue.
I love this sweater, can’t wait if you are successful with this one.