I have the scarf for My Friend, and the mittens I made to go along with it. The mittens were a late Valentine's present, and I finished them just in time for him to wear them up to Dallas last weekend when they were still being hit by cold weather so he was very happy to have them! I modified a pattern for plain mittens, and I would add another cable if making them again, but I was surprised to find that they fit him perfectly. Less surprised that he loves them, but still happy that he does.
I've also been working on another cowl that would have been for our mother if she didn't like the first one I made. That one is getting closer to completion. No picture of that one yet. I am getting very close to completing the Mutant Sweater. This is what it looked like before -
Between the first and second pictures I sewed up the seams and put the collar on. The ladies at my local yarn shop (LYS) reassured me that the short torso wouldn't be a problem, the sweater owner could just roll up the sleeves. After looking at it for long enough, and reading through too many Yarn Harlot blog postings, I decided I couldn't let the sweater remain a cropped top and unravelled it from the bottom. I've picked up the stitches (you can see the needle in the picture on the right) and have knit at least three or four inches on the bottom. The proportions look correct to me now, so I have started on the ribbing at the bottom and have five rows to go before completion. This means that The Boy's sweater will finally be complete! Only... 15 years late!
When the sweater is done, I too have a cross stitch project to do that is tiny but has eleventh-billion colors in it in single stitches, and I've already made a mistake within the first 20 stitches. Sigh. There are plenty of other things waiting to be completed as well, and I confess to buying more yarn for specific projects in the last couple of months, so I guess I'll just have to knit more.
Middle is making a crochet sloth for a friend. I'll see if I can get a picture of it. It is very cute.
Tallying up the rest of January through today - 29 hours.
30 hours total.
Margie
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