Yarn Everywhere!

Next up: Christmas knits! I’ll say now that this is not a complete entry. I knit a pair of plain brown ribbed gauntlets for Mitch from baby alpaca, and I didn’t have a change to photograph them before they were whisked off to northern California.

My mother got a wrapped skein of sock yarn for Christmas. It has since become this part-sock:

That’s the beginning of a Wavy Sock (pattern from The Knitter’s Book of Yarn) in Mountain Colors Bearfoot. It is lovely, and a little less orange in real life.

My boyfriend also got a fake Christmas present: two different half-knit mittens. I had some issues with sizing and pattern selection (it’s hard to knit things for people that aren’t around to try them on!). We ended up going with these:

Pattern: Jack-in-the-Box Mittens from Knitting New Mittens and Gloves, largest size (men’s)

Yarn: Brown Sheep Lamb’s Pride Worsted in Oregano, 1.2ish skeins

Needles: US6 Knitpicks nickel-plated DPN’s for cuff, Susan Bates US7 DNP’s for the rest.

Only one major modification: to knit the ribbed cuff that goes inside the outer mitten shell (at the end of the inner part of the mitten) I picked up stitches around the inside of the outer shell instead of casting those stitches on separately and then stitching them down later. It created that ugly crease you see in the picture above, but it also makes the outer shell lie nicely flat when pulled back:

I think they came out pretty nice. I was always sort of scornful of Brown Sheep Lamb’s Pride for no good reason, but now I’m a fan.

Gratuitous button shot!