Leftie and Socks

Here are more projects I failed to write about contemporaneously.  My mom's birthday is on Christmas day.  It sucks having a birthday on a holiday.  Woe to person who gives a joint birthday/Christmas present or wraps a birthday present in Christmas paper.  So I knit two presents for my mom this year.

The first was Leftie by Martha Behm.

Isn't my mom cute?

This is a cool one because you actually start with just three stitches and add more each row.  It gives the shawl a slanted look.

Every tenth row, you make a leaf on the left edge.

I used fingering weight KnitPicks Chroma, which has a slow color shift.  I'm not sure this color way exists anymore, but you can see it goes from a dark pink all the way to bright orange.

The other thing I knit for my mom was a pair of socks.  The first pair I made was a little too small.  This pair I knit from the toe up (no pattern), so I knew they were going to fit perfectly.

The yarn was something on the fancier side, a merino/nylon blend I believe.  I can't for the life of me remember the brand.

Her feet seem happy, though.

Weekend Update: Thanksgiving

I have camnesia, aka I totally didn't bring a camera with me to Thanksgiving (or really anywhere I went this week), so I have little in the way of visuals but I will try.

I got out of work early on Wednesday and did some major knitting.  I made a birthday present of fingerless mitts (ack!  no picture but similar to these) and did some major blocking of a bunch of Christmas presents/random things I had laying around.

The red mittens need a home if anyone wants them...they are REALLY fuzzy and only the slightest bit/really different sized.  That doesn't matter, right?

I also finished the fingerless mitts for another Christmas present. 

I have a feeling that I just gave away a  surprise.  Sorry....

And hung my stockings (and the J from college) with care in the hallway.

I have a feeling that if I tried to put anything in these stockings they would fall right off the wall, but at least they're up there. 

And yes, I waited until the day after Thanksgiving before decorating for Christmas.  Totally allowed.  Anyone have a small Christmas tree I could borrow?  I would like to decorate it with balls of yarn and little tiny sweaters.

Fairly productive weekend, no?