All this time sitting however has made for a lot of knitting time (even with a whole week in which I did none at all-- I absolutely hated the very thought of it that week and made my husband and eldest child cart all the yarn and books right back upstairs!). My mojo is back now, thankfully.
Here is the Noro Iro garter stitch scarf (exactly 2 skeins which worked out to have a lovely symmetry with one another when worked from opposite ends of the skeins) and, with a 3rd skein, an adult-sized adaptation of the "sweet baby hat". I plan on making more of these someday. It covers the ears perfectly and more snugly than any earflap hat I have knit in the past. The Iro was also enjoyable to knit and I'd like to get some more someday.
I also finished knitting the child's placket neck sweater from Last Minute Knitted Gifts. I mentioned it in my last post. The end result bears only a modest relationship to the published pattern. It is knitted in Debbie Bliss Merino dk. I did go back and undo the seed-stitch edge which was turning up like mad and put in a ribbed edge which is behaving nicely. I modified the raglan shaping somewhat and then was exasperated to discover that the reason the buttons on the placket neck look so small in the picture in the book is that they are beads and there are no buttonholes in the pattern. Anyway, I went ahead and added four buttonholes and hope I can find some turquoise football buttons or something similar once I can walk again.
I knit this scarf with some Wool in the Woods rayon I had in stash. I had 2 different colorways and held them together to make it a quicker knit. This was probably my 3rd attempt at making something with this yarn, so I'm pleased to be done with it.
That's it for actual finished projects, however. Mostly I ended up being quite aimless and started things and lost interest quite quickly. Here is the sorry state of affairs on that front:
The silk shrug and the casual sweater from Erika Knight's "Classic Knits". The brown shrug is in Blue Sky Alpaca Silk and I plan on making long sleeves instead of the short ones in the pattern. The casual sweater is in some long-discontinued Rowan Cork which has been in my stash quite a long time and it will be nice to use up a bunch of it.
I've also begun an as-yet-undecided knitted object (poncho, shawl, triangular scarf, afghan?) for one or more of my daughters. It is yarn from another twin-loss email friend who is moving overseas and it seems quite fitting to fashion it into something for my surviving twin. The yarn is Bendigo Woollen Mills Biarritz and it is unlike the yarns I usually purchase myself, but the girls gasped at its beauty when it came in the mail (thanks, N!).
I've also been occasionally working on some quite lovely mittens. The pattern is from the white Raumagarn pattern book found here. I am using more of the Harrisville yarn that I used for other mittens this spring. (Scroll down to the yarn variety pack.)
And, quite unsurprisingly, I have started some socks. Also, probably quite unsurprisingly given the current condition of my foot and my not wanting to think about feet, I have not finished them. The yellowish ribbed socks are for my husband with yarn from Maryland Sheep and Wool (I will try to find the ballband later). The pink is the start of a "Monkey" sock in Koigu from stash for my SIL who likes to sleep in socks and is owed a birthday present.
I am too ashamed to take pictures of all my new yarn, but I will show you the books I got from YesAsia. The Fair Isle book is full of beautiful sweaters with not a pattern among them (and many motifs may not be charted, either, as far as I could tell from a cursory look), but they should be inspiring to me someday. The Nordic Knitting book is an odd hodge-podge of techniques and I didn't really need that, but I am actually glad to have it just for the "Crown" pattern which meshes well with my "Waldorfian" side and I will certainly have a go on it soon.
