At home sick today. These damn preschoolers are diiiisgusting. Anyway, more time for knitting and games. Knitting Matching Hat/A mitten I learned cabling recently, made the hat from this pattern. Not sure whether I'm going to make another mitten to match this one, started on another pair. This was the first mitten I've made, it's got some structural problems (and, uh, the pattern is actually on the inside of the mitten because I made it upside down). Honeycomb mittens EDIT: Mitten 1 finished. Dala, just realized I never responded to your knitting - it looks awesome! Some really beautiful colors, and the lace is great.
I really like that hat! (I'm primarily a hat knitter, and cables on hats make me so happy.) Took me a long time to build up the courage to try cabling, but like much of my knitting adventures I realized that I was psyching myself up for something that isn't really all that scary at all. For both projects, what yarn did you use?
Thanks! Yeah, I too had a realization that most of knitting wasn't nearly as hard as I thought it would be. I used a cheap aran weight yarn from Joann's fabrics for the white mitten, and a nice local alpaca wool for the hat - I have the specific name spmewhere if you want it.
Thanks! The lace started out really frustrating until I figured out that I was trying to do my yarn over backwards for some reason. I'm pretty excited to see what it will look like once it's blocked out, even though I probably won't finish it anytime soon. I'm loving that honeycomb mitten, I keep seeing things made with the honeycomb pattern and I love the look. I hope to be confident enough to tackle it soon. I've heard there's a way to do a pair of things on circular needles in knitting. I don't know how that works as the only things I have ever made as pairs were crocheted.