sometimes i just want to know what it’s like to be you

I feel as though I haven’t knit in months. Probably it’s only been a week, but I’m tired, and Sleepy Me is a lot less rational about this sort of thing.

I’ve finished the commission work I started at the beginning of the month, and it’s off in the mail today.

I also started these, for myself. They are ridiculous, and insanely fiddly for what is, essentially, a pair of fingerless mittens, but I’m in love. The pattern is Andrea’s Mitts (), and you’re going to have to trust me that mine look like the ones in the pattern – it’s surprisingly hard to photograph stitch patterns in dark purple yarn, on yourself, left-handed.

Back in July, when I did the TTC Knitalong, I was given a single skein of – I think it’s Plymouth Mainland. This wool is gorgeous alpaca/silk, but each skein is only 65m, so I ended up using it as the CC in these mittens, along with some leftover purple yarn from a vest I knit last year. It was an excellent decision.

Song of the Entry: Fall Out Boy – Of All The Gin Joints In All The World

just kidding – unless you’re gon’ do it.

I’m slowly knitting away at the work I’m doing for P-, and getting close to being done!

This is off the needles, although all the finishing – sewing down the ends and adding fringe – is still on the go, but I’m very excited about it. I’ve also started on the second piece I need to get done, and it is flying off the needles like nothing.

I started this yesterday (it’s a hat – the Lucky 7 Hat, to be exact) and I’m already close to the crown. I think there’s something about cables that just makes me knit faster.

Song of the Entry: Jenny Owen Young – Hot in Herre

or do you take pride in being an insufferable know-it-all?

So, I tend to have two projects on the go at any given time: a “thinking” project, that I save for home, and a mindless project for school. Right now, my thinking project is my Shetland Lace Shawl, which is on hold for a week or so while I focus on a mindless project that should be very familiar to a lot of people.

This is actually my first for-reals commissioned work – a scarf in Gryffindor house colours. (For the record, Recipient: the real scarf is slightly less yellow than it looks in these photos; I took them at night.) It’s knit in a tube, so the entire project is mindless stockinette, and it’s actually turning out to be the perfect project to knit during lectures, because I barely have to think about anything while I work at it.