2nd pair of gloves, and FLS progress

Here is another pair of fingerless gloves I made for that charity auction:

Pattern: Evangeline Mitts
Yarn: Patons Classic wool

Other than that I have been chugging along on my February Lady sweater!!!! I am on the 2nd sleeve and I hope I can get this done SOON! Yay!!!!!!!!!!!

Fundraiser auction

One of the blogs that I follow, Before the Morning, is about a family with a little boy who has a skin condition called Epidermolysis Bullosa. Recently, the sweet mama Patrice who writes the blog found out about another little boy with that same skin condition in Russia - only that little boy is an orphan! The orphanage in Russia won't even take him since he has the skin condition (link to a page with more information about all this: here). Anyway, Patrice felt moved to try and help out the little boy, so she started a blog (Hope for Anton) to try and raise money to offset the cost of his adoption if a family decides to adopt him!

The reason I am talking about this is I felt like I could do something to help raise money, so I am knitting some things to donate that she can auction off! First up, I made a pair of my fav fingerless glove pattern:

Pattern: 75-yd Malabrigo Mitts, modified to add a thumb
Yarn: Patons Classic Wool

They are up on the blog (here) and already getting bids!!!! I am so glad that people actually want to buy them!

Anyway just wanted to share what was going on. Let's raise some money!!!!

It's alive!

Back from the dead, yes - it's my February Lady Sweater!!!!

I am SO horrible at knitting sweaters for myself in any sort of timely manner. I started this in March of 2010! It's almost been a year, and I am resolved to finish this SOON. I just cast off the body and it feels SO NICE! Like actual progress! Here's hoping the sleeves move quickly!

Something for... ME!

Yes that's right folks, I actually knit something for myself! Try not and have a heart attack! It started at the onset of winter - I realized I owned some knitted scarves but NO fingerless gloves.... for shame! (my poor cold hands!)

Luckily for me, I have many skeins of beautiful yarn at my disposal. I went upstairs to peruse the stash and settled upon some GORGEOUS madelinetosh Tosh Vintage that Cynthia had picked up for me last year from STITCHES midwest!

Isn't it drool worthy? I wanted a pattern that would show off the beautiful mottled coloring, and I had done a pattern recently that I thought would be perfect. So I made my own pair of "Susie's Reading Mitts"! (Pattern here)

I love them sooooo much! When I wore them to the grocery store the other day it was DANGEROUS!!! Why? Because while holding the steering wheel I was tempted to stare at my gloves in the sunlight rather than watch the road! LOL! So there's a warning to anyone knitting gloves with MadelineTosh!

Lots of knitting!

Whew, my needles have been busy lately. I keep getting distracted by small quick projects and procrastinating on my sweaters! Sheesh :)

First, I had a commissioned project for my friend Larissa. She had a mess of knitting gifts to get finished by a set date, and wasn't sure that she was going to make it, so I jumped in and knit up this "batman" mask on her behalf! She paid me for the yarn, and it knit up in 2 days!

Pattern: Zsa Mask  (Rav link)

My friend Candace said her and her mom were knitting preemie hats for charity, and I wanted to help out. I just finished knocking out 4 teeny tiny hats to contribute!

Those are from my own pattern:  Baby Cables Preemie Hats

These are modified versions of this hat: Pixie Hat.  I CO 46 stitches to make it more of a preemie size!

I also got in the mood to make a little something for Norah. Well actually Greg saw the tiny pixie hats I was making and said Norah needed one too :) So here's the "big girl" version for her! (CO 66 sts)

I added an applied i-cord tie to keep it on her head. I also had to make matching mittens to go with the hat!!!

So cute :) I improvised the pattern, just some 1x1 ribbing, then some stockinette, then decreases like at the top of a hat.

Next post: I finally knit something for MYSELF!!!!!