I decided to enter a KAL featuring Christmas Knitting.
While only one entry can actually be entered, you can knit as many things as you want, provided you only post one finished object in the final thread for the knit-along.
While you can't knit until October the 15th (tomorrow), you can swatch and wind yarn before, so I spent yesterday winding a whole bunch of yarn for these projects.
1) Dragon Rider Gloves. They're for someone who reads this blog, so I'm hoping not to spoil the surprise too badly.
2) Mittens on a String. These are a simple free mitten pattern. My giftee for these is one of those types, while a really sweet person, who would leave his head behind if it wasn't attached to his body. Hence, the mitten-string.
3) Mini-Dalek Coffee Cozy. This is going to be the most complicated of my Christmas gifts since I'm re-sizing the pattern. It's just a matter of recalculating and shrinking stitches per inch, but it still has to be done. Gauge isn't absolutely crucial on this, which does give me a bit of wiggle room.
4) Pine Cone Mittens. Yet another pattern from Knitting Everyday Finery, these are the only project I haven't created a Ravelry Project Page for, because the yarn for them doesn't need to be wound, it's a giant ball of worsted-weight mill ends I got ages ago that came pre-wound. These are for the friend who was kind enough to lend me a netbook to get through the laptop being down. He wasn't initially on my knitting list, but he really did come to my rescue since I need the computer for work.
Finally, there's a project for me, as part of the idea of this KAL is that you don't forget about yourself during the frantic rush of holiday knitting. The idea is you get one entry for a gift, and one entry for something you knit for yourself. So, like I mentioned before, I'm going to be making myself a fair-isle hat/cowl/mitten set.
It's going to be a busy next few months.
No comments:
Post a Comment