Today is take a picture Tuesday over on the Elliebelly group on ravelry, with special yarn gifts for random posters, to celebrate Hanukkah. I'm working on my Olivia wrap. Hope you will take a few minutes to post your picture on the Ravelry today as well!
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Hanukkah, Knitting and Elliebelly Yarn
What would the first night of Hannukah be without gifts? Specifically, yarn. Because what else does a knitter want for the holidays?
Every Tuesday on the Elliebelly knitting group on Ravelry, we post on our Take A Picture Tuesday thread and share what we're working on. All projects are welcome, no matter what yarn you're knitting with. Since the first night of Hanukkah this year coincides with our Take a Picture Tuesday thread, this week, I will do a few random drawings to send Yarny Hanukkah gifts to posters next Tuesday.
So come post your works in progress or even your works on hold. Post a picture of yarn you haven't cast on yet and what you're thinking about knitting with it. Or post your recent swatching.
The holidays give us a chance to be our best selves and knitting is definitely a part of that for me. Invite your friends to our party and post up all the Yarny goodness for inspiration, motivation and just plain fun. We can't have dreidles and latkes on line, but there will be yarn!
Bad Things Happen When I Go Away
I should have known it was going to be a bad trip, right? For openers, within minutes of my getting on the first plane, husband sends a series of photos that demonstrate that my months of careful training of the puppy are all going out the window. Immediately.
He taunted me with photos all week: dog on table, dog on bed, dog in the trash. I should have known it was going to be a really bad week. And it was, at least in a knitting way, because this is the last photo we're every going to see of my Ferryboat Mitts, knit in my beloved Plucky Knitter Trusty yarn in Corduroy.
I finished the first mitt and started on the second the night before I left, hence the fabulously bad hotel room lighting photo. But they were lovely. I couldn't stop trying them on in progress.
(Airplane lighting, even worse than hotel room lighting).
I answered a work-related call in the Atlanta airport as my flight home was boarding. Typically, I would have had better sense than to combine those two, but it was an important call. By the time I sat down on the plane, I realized I didn't have my knitting. A kind stewardess told me I had time to run back and get it. The gate agent wouldn't let me off, but said she would go get it. Predictably, she came back 30 seconds later, telling me it wasn't there and that I had to get on the plane.
Despite the efforts of some kind Ravelers and other friends to track it down, my knitting is nowhere to be found. So RIP wonderful mitts that would have kept me warm, along with my favorite copper stitch markers. Somewhere around gate T3 in the Atlanta airport, my knitting is cold and lonely. I feel sure it misses me. And I feel really sad.
Progress and Pretzels
This is Olivia in progress on a rather turbulent plane ride from Washington to Atlanta. I am coming to love Fisherman’s Rib although I struggled with it at first. Several more inches of it to go.
Today’s Airplane Knitting
More work on the Irish Hiking Scarf I’m knitting my youngest for Christmas. I’m about halfway there.
Knit This Now! Plucky Yarn, Fingerless Mitts, And Me
Every time I knit a pair of fingerless knits, they magically get adopted by another member of my family. I'm the only one around who is ungloved. But this time, I'm knitting just for me!
This is Churchmouse Fingerless Mitts in The Plucky Knitter Trusty. The yarn is a pleasure to knit with and the color is fabulous. I'm liking these so much that I'm hoping I have enough leftover to do a striped pair with this yarn and the yarn from my Betsy Blue Mitts.
This pattern is so simple and so functional. You could probably manage it with any skein of sport, dk or worsted yarn. It's quick. It would make anyone happy. Knitters everywhere should stop what they are doing and cast this pattern on. It's just that happy of a knit!
Knitting in Progress: Cables and Lace Capelet
My Cables and Lace Capelet, in Madeline Tosh's ASAP yarn, is coming along. The construction is unusual. The strip I'm knitting, in the photo, will be the bottom edge of the Capelet when it's finished. If you look carefully, you will see the contrast yarn used for the provisional cast on at the bottom edge. When the strip measures about 50", I'll graft the live stitches on the needles to the live stitches in the provisional cast on, and then pick up stitches along the top to knit up into the body ofthe capelet. It's such a clever construction and because the yarn is bulky it goes quickly.
This was one of those patterns I had to knit the minute I saw it. And I'm enjoying the cables, which are interesting enough to hold attention but easy enough to knit through football or tv viewing. I hope to make progress on the band this week so I can get to the body next weekend.