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

beautiful, wonderful, don't you ever change

IMG_7606, originally uploaded by pirateygoodness.

As promised, this yarn is turning into something pink and knitted. Specifically, a pair of squishy pink mittens for myself, because I apparently if I don’t have a cabled project on my needles at all times, I have some kind of physiological reaction.

The pattern, for those interested, is Hermione’s Cable-and-Bobble Mittens, from atypically-knit, and it’s amazing. LIke, I can’t quite explain why making bobbles is as fun as it is, but I love doing it and mittens give me an excuse, because it doesn’t matter that bobbles sort of look like nipples when they’re for a garment that goes on my hands.

Song of the Entry: Taylor Swift – Hey Stephen