Pattern: Endpaper Mitts by Eunny Jang Raveled here
Yarn: Knit picks Gloss in (3/4th skein) Woodland Sage & (2/3rds skein) Serengeti
Needles: US 3 (3.25mm) knit pick’s harmony fixed circular for the body & US 2 (2.75mm) knit pick’s harmony fixed circular for the ribbing. One bottom ribbing was done in US 0 (2.0mm).

Mods: I used a different tubular cast-on because I could not figure out the suggested one. Otherwise I think I knit these according to the pattern. There was not much to mess with.

Facts to remember: That I need to remember which hand has what color. I knit my color work with the main color in my right and the contrasting color in the left so that I can knit faster. I have done this since my first project. I did not know this was not standard. I did noticed that there is one row at the palm of one mitten which was knit with the strands switched. Most likely me knitting in the car in the dark. Also if increases are made at the edges, a lifted bar increase or a L-rink looks better. One mitt used lifted bar increases and the other I could not remember what I used since it had been 5 months since I did the first mitt, so I used a backwards loop M1. The backwards loop M1 is messier looking than the other mitt.

Things I Love: They fit like a dream. The silk /wool blend which is not too warm or heavy but allows me to do a lot with them on. If I fold the top ribbing inside, I can knit without snagging the mitts. Which is perfect because I knit these so that I would have mitts to wear in the house when it was cold. I like to keep the heat down because we have central air and when I am designing all day I tend to sit in one spot. I find it a bit silly to heat the whole house when I am only using a small corner.

Bobbie: Do you recognize your sweater?

Well I have not had too much time to knit away but I have been plugging along on my endpaper mitts. I really want to finish these since I want to wear them. The pattern is so easy to follow and understand.

I hope to be finished with these by next week. Then I can cast on for some new projects. Hopefully my skirt and a giant Beet.

I hope your week is going well, I am plugging along on some swatches. I think it is interesting that I don’t mind knitting a project with tiny stitches if I am making progress but a large square swatch makes me want to hurt myself. The pains of designing.

Last week you saw the start of this little monkey sock. Well it flew off the needles just as fast as everyone says they should. Yes I cast-on Tuesday last week but had to rip what I had done twice. I seem to have forgotten the pattern in the 6 1/2 months since I finished the last pair of monkeys. Well all is well now and the first sock was done on DPNs since my 2.75mm circulars were back in Washington. Now that I am home, I switched the second sock onto my 2.75mm circular. I guess this is the test of a gauge change from one knitting method to another.

As you probably notice, the last few WIP posts have been taken outside. It is all in compliance with PS3: Earth. Greens, Browns & Metallics rule the day. Don’t you love the green flowers on my tree. They are so funky. I have no clue what they are. If anyone knows I would love an answer.

The Endpaper Mitts have been pulled out again. I told myself I had to finish a UFO before I could start my skirt. I really want to cast-on for it. I have 3 balls of yarn wound and my friend is planning on knitting it with me. This weekend may show a new pair of mitts to wear at the coast.

Don’t forget to check back on Saturday for my contest. I have decided that there are many levels to enter yourself and each level gets you another chance at winning. There will be 3 prizes. Something for every kind of knitter.

Since I finished wicked on Saturday, I needed something to work on Easter while visiting friends. I finished up the first endpaper mitts pretty quickly. I thought I had a lot further to go on this one. I was amazed to work on it so little and finish up one mitt. I might have gotten further that day, but I forgot that Ham gives me severe migraines and had some for Easter dinner.

Since I still had a little over 1 skein of malabrigo left from knitting my wicked sweater, I decided to make something else for Malabrigo March. I finally decided on A Better Bucket since I really like to wear them all year round. This should be a yummy snuggly hat that keeps the rain out of my face.

The other little start there is my swap sock. I had to rip it out at the beginning of March for the second time. I really did not want to think about it for a while so I placed it in time out. Today I decided that I needed to get it done since the swap ends at the end of the month. My pal gave me a bit more time since this thing was frustrating me too much after knitting it twice.

I have been working on getting my next pattern out to my test knitters so these pitiful attempts are all I have to show you. Once next month starts I will be knitting my final sample of Alisa (rav link), the pattern I will be releasing at the end of the month. You will get to see the pattern as it develops. I will be donating the first couple of months of proceeds to ravelry and then later a portion of the proceeds will go to ravelry.

We are back home tonight. Yeah. I am tired of traveling and being on the move. I think I have been gone a part of each week since the beginning of December. Why me?

You came here for the weekly report so let me see. My knitting has been a bit slow, but I parked my butt on the couch today because I intend to not let the last Christmas gift drag out until February. You hear that Bud. I will be done. Ok so here is the belated present.

It is getting a little big for my photo space. I had to shove some yarn out of the way just to get the whole thing in. Well I finished the left side and grafted the cuff cable. That was a bit harder than I thought. Now I have the right side and the hood left plus the seaming. I plan on seaming tomorrow so that I get it done in bits rather than getting annoyed at it all at once.

Anyone interested in a little bit of Cable close-ups. I am a bit in love with cables right now.

This here is me playing with ghetto lighting which I read about over on Socks for Mum. She is taking a lighting class. I really love the look, but I think my camera focuses a bit better with the flash.

Lastly we have my Twisted Flower which I am knitting for SockDown! I am in love. The pattern flows so smoothly that my second sock does not even need the patten to be carried around.

My endpaper mitts are stalling because I need to finish the present and the socks they call my name, but my hands moan about being cold. So I need to knit faster so that I can finish things and have some mitts to wear while knitting indoors.

So this here elegant bottle of wine was a present and so was the yarn and the pattern, yes I seem to be in need of sock blockers. That would be a nice present. Hint Hint. Ok back to the WIPS. If you don’t recognize the sock pattern, it is Twisted Flower by the wonderful Cookie A. I cast on these lovely socks on New Years to start the new year off with something new. I knit 2″ of the sock that day and put it aside till I finished my nephews socks and hat plus got Bud’s Cardigan for Arwen in a submissive state.

Here is the difficult little knit. The cables have been very disagreeable. I seem to keep ripping out the same section multiple times. At least I have learned to ladder down instead of unknit the whole 20 rows or so that are giving me grief. I lengthened this sweater so that it reaches her preferred length. I measured and the arms will fit her fine. I am kind of avoiding this one but it needs to be done by MLK day or I am sunk. I promised her Christmas present by then. I keep finding better things to do with my time like start a business and do a sudo business plan. Yes I dream large and do weird things when I avoid something. Ok well there is one last WIP lurking in my bag.

It is my endpaper mitts. I can’t wait to be done with them so that I can wear them in my very cold house to knit with. Maybe I should finish these first before anything else so that my fingers don’t freeze. Fat chance of that the sock has me a bit obsessed.

So the future has much in store there is another Cookie A sock chomping at the DPNs to be cast on. If I don’t do that soon, I might be missing a few DPNs. I also want to work through the pile of stuff on my work bench.

Don’t forget you Seattle knitters. I will be in your area starting Friday and staying till most likely Wednesday. Leave me a comment or PM me on Ravelry (RChrispy).

Lastly I just made the decision today to not participate in the current Sexy Knitters Club KAL. The patterns just don’t work for me and I don’t have the time to fix them for my body. It seems weird that I started last year with them and this year I part ways. I just have a bit much on my plate plus I hope to have some surprises for everyone in the late Spring. I will be participating in Project Spectrum started by Lolly.

It is a fresh year and I have a few WIPs going but they have been packed up in readyment for churchable’s family Christmas. We are heading to Spo Vegas for the weekend.

We are leaving after I see my GYN who has been rescheduled every month from late August to now. I refused to change this appointment. I was tired of moving it. It is a pain to move things around that whenever you call to change it is always a month out.

I know you would like some WIPs instead of a nice log, but think of it as a beautiful inspiration. To appease you, I will post a list of my WIPs.

1 Cardigan to be gifted this weekend but I think it will not be done till MLK weekend when we go back to Spo Vegas.

1 Twisted Flower sock in yarn gifted me by my pal from SP11, which was cast on to welcome in the new year. I am knitting it for the Ravelry: SockDown KAL.

1 Endpaper mitts in KP gloss

a little tube sock for my nephew to match his father. I should be done tonight.

Ok I am off to finish packing and knit the little tube sock. Hopefully there is something good on TV or at least on the TV websites or I will hop over to Netflix and try out the watch on their system some movie that only I want to watch. Churchable always tells me what movie that arrive on my account that he wants to watch. It normally is not a problem but I do prefer to have something to watch especially when I can’t turn on the TV.