Woo hoo! As you can see, the mittens are almost done! (As you can't see, they don't have thumbs yet.) I'm really happy with my second-ever straded knitting project. My big accomplishment was learning to knit with each color in a different hand – that made it go so much faster! I'm not sure if I'm knitting the official Continental way, but it works for me. (I tried to purl with the yarn in my left hand, too, and that was just a disaster. Kate? Help!!!)
Now that I've got this project almost done, I'm having lots of fun looking at all the mitten patterns on Ravelry. Thankfully, Anxiousdog Kate has queued up about a hundred of them, so she saves me the time and I just go straight to her queue and favorites.
In other news, I has finally occred to me that Christmas is really right around the corner – as in, relatives show up in 9 days! – so I should probably do something about getting the house decorated. I have a wreath on the front door, but that's about it. Most of my decorations are ornaments, so with no tree, my house looks a wee bit Grinch-like.
Hopefully by Sunday I'll be able to post a picture of a fully decorated tree. That's doable, right?
My un-decorated tree has been up for 2 weeks now! I’m hoping to get some ornaments on it tomorrow!
Love the mittens!
Those mittens are great! I’m truly impressed… I haven’t yet attempted any kind of colorowrk, and that looks reaaly intricate!
I love these mittens! I think it’s even cooler that you came up with the design yourself! I still have mitten fever (as evidenced by the three I queued today) but I am so ready to move past Pirate Mittens!
Here comes Christmas! Yay!
Lovely mitten! You can get a tree decorated this weekend. I have faith.