Thrummed mittens and a sweatsock
I am about halfway through two new
projects.
projects.
I am completely unsatisfied with the mittens that i made. i mean, they are okay for
me, living in the bay area, but i am not sure they are actually warm. I want to
give them to my aunt in montana, so they need to be really warm. i started
browsing around for a really warm mitten pattern, and i noticed the thrum-along . Now i had seen this on other
people’s blogs and completely ignored it, not knowing what thrummed mittens
were. as soon as i found out (thank you yarn
harlot ), i realized they would be perfect for my aunt. They are
mittens with bits of roving or fleece knitted in to serve as insulation. I got
a free
pattern from yarn forward, some merino roving from deep color
studio by my house and got to work. I decided to use the alpaca that i got from elann so that it will be
ridiculously warm. i have one mitten
finished:
me, living in the bay area, but i am not sure they are actually warm. I want to
give them to my aunt in montana, so they need to be really warm. i started
browsing around for a really warm mitten pattern, and i noticed the thrum-along . Now i had seen this on other
people’s blogs and completely ignored it, not knowing what thrummed mittens
were. as soon as i found out (thank you yarn
harlot ), i realized they would be perfect for my aunt. They are
mittens with bits of roving or fleece knitted in to serve as insulation. I got
a free
pattern from yarn forward, some merino roving from deep color
studio by my house and got to work. I decided to use the alpaca that i got from elann so that it will be
ridiculously warm. i have one mitten
finished:
It pretty much looks like a boxing
glove, and could function as one, except it has so much stuffing in it you can’t
really make a proper fist. sarah also noted that if you wore these hiking, you
could also use them as pillows.
My
second project is a gift for little Philip the Second, my ipod. Inspired by
apple’s ipod socks (which actually look nothing like socks) I am using the endless summer lara yarn i bought from elann to
make a sweatsock for him to live in.
I think it is coming along nicely. after i took
this photo there was a bit of a mishap. while knitting on the bus and balancing
a travel mug of coffee between my legs (you can see where this is going , can’t
you?), i got coffee on the yarn. but in the weirdest way! After i yanked some
yarn out of the ball, before i had knit it, it must have dunked in the tiny
little sipper hole on the coffee mug and into the coffee. So i had to knit a
stain into it. Ehh, it’s a sweatsock it will be fine. A note about this yarn:
the white color sucks. i dont know if this is common in 100% mercerized cotton,
but this stuff is stiff like as a little rope. I thought all of the yarn must
be crap (heck it was only $2 for 100 yds) but when i knit the stripes in the
blue was lovely and soft. must be the bleaching. i hope the stiffness goes
away when i wash the coffee stain out of it.
this photo there was a bit of a mishap. while knitting on the bus and balancing
a travel mug of coffee between my legs (you can see where this is going , can’t
you?), i got coffee on the yarn. but in the weirdest way! After i yanked some
yarn out of the ball, before i had knit it, it must have dunked in the tiny
little sipper hole on the coffee mug and into the coffee. So i had to knit a
stain into it. Ehh, it’s a sweatsock it will be fine. A note about this yarn:
the white color sucks. i dont know if this is common in 100% mercerized cotton,
but this stuff is stiff like as a little rope. I thought all of the yarn must
be crap (heck it was only $2 for 100 yds) but when i knit the stripes in the
blue was lovely and soft. must be the bleaching. i hope the stiffness goes
away when i wash the coffee stain out of it.