Baby Steps

Adrian-esque photo shot

Ahh... it's so nice to have a finished project. They're only small projects, but it's like doing the easy chores first. You'll have more time for the harder tasks. Here's two I can check off my WIP list. I knit the buttonbands and sewed the buttons on the mushroom pulsewarmers friday night, they got an all day stretch on saturday, and now they're ready to wear. There's just one problem. It's 73 degrees F (23 C) up here. They'll have to wait, along with the kerchief, for autumn.

I did change a couple of things: I made one button band striped (for no particular reason) and I added a St.st. back panel to avoid snagging the floats on anything. It didn't increase the thickness too much, but it makes them much warmer. These will have to be my sitting-in-a-snowdrift-and-get-a-hankering-to-knit pulse warmers.

I'm in love with the mushroom motif. It reminds me of the Mario Bros. video games that were the size of a VHS cassette, remember? And those huge pixels. My next pair should have little 1up's on them. I wore them while I was wandering around this morning and I caught myself humming the Mario theme song.

Do ya feel lucky? Do ya?

I also finished the kerchief from Last-Minute Knitted Gifts. It was my mindless knitting project and now it's gone. I'm going to miss knitting it. It was the kind of project you could knit while watching a really riveting movie. Pick up needles... put on auto-knitter. Now I can keep myself warm and play cowboys and indians...

...or pretend I'm the Pope.