FREE PATTERN ALERT!!!

Yeah I finally wrote up one of the patterns I have waiting to be written up.

I named the Rose because well I made these last March for my Aunt Rose. So I named the pattern after her.


Rose Fingerless Mitts

Wosted weight yarn (I used around 125 yards)
size 7 needles in which ever style of knitting around that you perfer (dpns, magic loop or 2 circs)
markers (I used 3)
cable needle (if you use one)
waste yarn

Note: I have made these mitts 3 times and each time I cabled different. Cable how you like. For example: On my first pair I all of the cables twisted in one direction. On the 2nd pair the cables on the left mitt went right and the cables on the right mitt went left. On the 3rd pair the cables on each mitt twist toward each other. Feel free to do any of these ways. The pattern is written for the twisting toward each other.

Here is an example of the cables that are written

(more examples at the end)

Both mitts start the same and only differ in where the thumb gusset is placed

cf4 - place the next 2 stitches on cable needle and hold in front. Knit the next 2 stitches then the 2 stitches from cable needle

cb4 - place the next 2 stitches on cable needle and hold in back. Knit the next 2 stitches then the 2 stitches from cable needle

m1 - use whichever form of increase you are comfy with. I use the backward loop

CO 36
Place marker and join (making sure nothing is twisted)

R1: k2, p2, k4, p2, k2, p2, k4, p2 then k2, p2 to end of round
R2: repeat rd 1
R3: k2, p2, cf4, p2 k2, p2, cb4, p2 then k2, p2 to end of round
R4-8: repeat rd 1
R9: repeat rd 3

Basically you do the cable round every 6th round

R10 - 14: rpeat rd 1
R15: repeat rd 3
R16 - 20: repeat rd 1
R21: repeat rd 3
R22 - 26: repeat rd 1
R27: repeat rd 3
R28 - 32: repeat rd 1

R33 is the round where the thumb gusset is started. I use what is for me a basic one. For the left mitt the gusset will start in the first k2 of the round. For the right mitt the thumb gusset will start in the first k2 after the second cable.

R33: repeat rd 3 and at the same time at the k2 for the appropiate mitt: k1, place marker, m1, place marker, k1

thumb gusset: basically every other round you increase like this

k1, slip marker, m1, knit to marker, m1, slip marker, k1
Next round knit across the gusset stitches

Increase until you have 15 stitches between markers. Knit across then place stitches on waste yarn and continue mitt untill end

Remember to continue thumb gusset and

R34 - 38: round 1
R39: round 3
R40-44: round 1
R45: round 3
R46 - 50: round 1
R51: round 3
R52-56: round 1
R57: round 3
R58 and 59: round 1

BO

Place thumb stitches on needles and also pick up 2 stitch where thumb meets glove.

next round: k2tog then knit to last 2 stiches, k2tog

Knit 2 more rounds then BO

Weave in ends then make other mitt and Enjoy!!

Copyright: Qutecowgirl. Blah Blah my pattern enjoy for personal use, do not call your own or sell. Feel free to link
Any questions email @ mrstank1 (AT) optonline (DOT) net


as written


These mitts have the cables on the left mitt going right and the cables on the right mitt going left. It is a little hard to see with the colors

close up

I do not have a picture of the first pair. Totally forgot to take a picture before I shipped them off.

Enjoy!!

=)

More yarn and more socks..kinda

Well the last of the yarn arrived. i bought some yarn from a fellow blogger Becca. She is moving and destashing and as a fellow knitter I just had to help her out. =)

This is Claudia Hand Painted Yarns from Louet. Short sport 100% merino in Color John B.



This is closer to the real color



This is my first time seeing this yarn. It is soft and very very squishy. Me like. Me want more.

This is from The Yarn Tart I can not remember what the color is. I think it is Thistle.



The Noro socks were going to be my mindless knitting that I do while making dinner or while the kids are doing their home work, but that changed. I was looking at my New Pathways book and I was reading about the Milkmaid Stocking and thought to myself " Hey I have the same number on my Noro socks and I have enough Noro to make these". So Noro is not mindless anymore. Noro has become Milkmaid Noro. Progress is only about another inch and now that I have to follow a chart they mightbecome The Slow Milkmaid Noro Socks.



So now I need a mindless sock. Enter (drum roll) ......Mindless John B. It really happened by accident. I was sitting there while the last batch of yarn was sitting there and well since Becca had already had one of the Claudia hanks balled up I figured it was fate. So I grabbed the needle off my Mommy's socks (do not worry Mommy i will finish as soon as I dig out that other ball this weekend) and started. Mindless John B will be toe up so I can use all of the yarn. At only 112 yards per hank these will be anklets (just the way I like my socks)



This was done while watching the last half of MythBusters.

=)

More Yarn P0rn!

Well yesterday I got another package of yarn! But first updates!

Mom's second Dove sock is now a few rows pass the heel. Guess what happened? The d%mn cable popped out on this cable while I was decreasing. This is the second of the first set. Come on Knitpicks do you really make them this crappy or am I just lucky to receive the set that both cables were defective? I managed to push the cable back into the metal piece and it stayed. I didn't switch the cable for one of the newer ones yet but I will when I start knitting on it again (after I go stash diving to find the other ball - you think I would learn by now to get all the yarn I need.)



Here is the Noro cake



here is my sock so far



I can see how this yarn can be addicting with the whole " I'll keep going until I get to the next color" thing cause that is what happened so far. =)

Okay here is my Socks That Rock

The first one is Scottish Highlands in heavyweight





here is Rook-y in medium weight from the raven series



with flash to try to show the pink,green and blue



I have been petting these 2 skeins alot (I have them sitting right next to my iBook) and I want to knit them now!!! The Rook-y most likely will become Bellatrix by Momma Monkey as a thank you and as a memorial to a great sock designer (in case if you didn't know Momma Monkey lost her battle with lupus a few weeks ago. She was the person behind Socktopia and a brilliant designer) She will be missed.

=)

That was fast!!

I received the cables today!!! That was way fast. (How come yarn doesn't arrive that fast?) Anyway I should be on my way soon. I am a little slow because once again I am sick. Why yes this is getting really annoying!! I was told today that when I reach my dosage (which should be where I am at right now hopefully) and then wait a while for my immune system to even out, I won't be getting sick every week. This time it is not bronchitis it is strep. Most of the weekend I thought it was just the side effect kicking my butt, but last night I could not swallow without pain. My problem will be is that until everything gets use to the drug I will be getting sick and quickly (and that is going to be fun with 3 kiddies around huh?)

Anyway, on to the good news. I received my shipment from Webs. So lets bring on the yarn p0rn!! (it always makes me feel better)



This is Artyarns Supermerino 4 in colorway 123 (my favorite). Supermerino 4 is like a sport weight/DK. It suggests size 4 needle. Oh as a little side note i am now using Flickr for my pictures so feel free to click on them to see a bigger picture

Next up is Artyarns Handpaint Stripes in 2 different colorways. 123 and 108. This is worsted weight and this lovely 123 will become a matching hat to my cabled wristwarmers. 108 I am not sure, but most likely something for the girls.



108



123

Lastly is something new to me. Noro Kureyon sock yarn. I have heard much about this stuff (going both ways) and when I ordered the yarn it looked blah and I was thinking to myself why am I ordering this stuff?



This is what it looked like on the website. Well I bought it anyway. I have heard tons about how the coloring of Noro is to die for and some people would be happy to just knit with Noro for the rest of their lives. So basically I crossed my fingers.


This is the side view. Now I was getting happy. After picture taking was done I wound it up on the trusty ol ball winder and boy I am happy. I think the reason why this was the only colorway left was because of that blah picture. Works for me. Next time I will show you the cake picture, very pretty.

Yes I started knitting it too! It did feel very rough while I was winding it, but the knitted part feels softer. I have also read that when you wash it the yarn blooms kinda like linen and becomes much softer.

Well That is what is going on over here. I am sick and now I have lots of yarn (between webs and my dying and more still to come) and no energy to knit it. Figures right?

=)

One sock and then a problem

Well it took less then 20 minutes to finish the one sock.

Pattern: Dove socks from Cat Bordhi's New Pathways For Sock Knitters
Yarn:Calzetterina
color: Milan
needle: size 4 40 inch magic loop
For: My mommy (whose foot is a lot smaller then mine hence why my foot is squished into it)





While I was biding off, one of the worst things happened.



The cable came out of the metal screw piece. Of course I tried to put it back in and well it just fell back out. I called Knitpicks and they are sending a replacement. Which is fine and dandy but it will be here in 5-14 days. So I went hunting for the other 40 inch cable (had to switch it with another cable) and know I am more then half way up the foot.

Cute puppy pic:

In the month we have had her she has gain 5 lbs!!



Next time I will have the yarn I ordered form Webs!!

SNOW!!!!!!!!!

Yeah we had snow!!!! It was wonderful. We got about 6 and a half inches of fluffy-ness until it started raining!!! So right now it is more slush then snow. The kiddies wanted to go out and play (me too!!) and I told then after lunch. Bad move. Oh well at least wee got to see snow this year. Can we have more please (but without the rain, ok?)

Ta Da

They are dry and the sun was out so I got some really nice pictures. This is what I spent the past weekend doing: Dying yarn. I had fun and just played around and granted some did not come out how I pictured but I love how they all came out.

First up is 2 hanks of dk weight yarn.
This one was done in the mircowave. Yellow on one side and blue on the other makes green in the middle.





This is the other DK one. The dye bath was dark purple. The red I was using seems to soak up really really quickly so by the time it got to the middle it was mostly blue. It looks like tie dye and I love this one. This was a "Happy accident".





Next up is fingering weight yarn.

This was done on the stove too. Different purple mix and I just placed the yarn in and swirled it just a little. I usually do not move the yarn much in the pot. I like the molted colors that come out this way.





This next one was also done on the stove. I left this one a little longer then usual and well the water slightly boiled and the color is more uniform. There are variations in color, they are just more subtle.





This one was done in the mircowave. Blue to green.




This last one was done with leftover dye. I added black to mute out the brightness but still show the color (totally inspired by the raven series from Socks that Rock) The bottom is green then it goes into blue then red. The red again was absored real quick and left the black dye behind. I have no clue why or how. I like how it turned out very much.




Well that is what I did. I kinda got back my mojo. I started socks yesterday for my mommy using the New Pathways book and well shortly (like in about 20 after i get off the computer) I will have 1 sock done. My mommy also came over today for a visit and she tried it on and it fits great. Yes I was totally wondering how the heck it was going to fit correctly while I was knitting it. I should just trust Mrs.Bordhi and from now on I will.