We made it through Christmas, but barely. We knew a Christmas snowstorm was on the way, so we delivered gifts before the holiday. I finished a few things, and some things will be finished later. Several of hubby's work friends received corn bag heating pads, and some got towels as well. My dad got a guitar strap woven on my inkle loom. I gave away all of my
Bumbaret towels (love those colors!) as well as the blue
Linked Birdseye towels. I had not finished a hat I was knitting for my mother, so I finished off two of the
Rosepath Plaid towels for her. I used a "cut off the warp and retie" method found online (via
Peggy Osterkamp's blog), and it worked well. I also found that the Rosepath Plaid towels were
very long, so I adjusted future iterations of the pattern based on that. Instead of doing four pattern repeats, followed by a set of red stripes, I'll be doing three pattern repeats and without the last set of red stripes.
I made this
fox hat for a friend's toddler, and it came out cute.
I tried to finish this
Fading Strands hat for my mother, but didn't finish in time. I finished it yesterday while knitting at hubby's work, but found it a huge disappointment - too small, and too short. I'm going to remake it, with needles one size larger, the larger set of numbers, and one extra pattern repeat.
Now I am winding a warp for the Masters towels, in blues, and working on the rest of the Rosepath Plaid warp.
Today I received some heavy texsolv cord I ordered from
Halcyon Yarn, and changed out some nylon rope on my front warp rods for texsolv cord. The rope that was used had huge knots, that left bumps I didn't like when winding on. This will be much smoother.
I also received a
new book today, thanks to a Christmas Amazon gift card from my dad! I look forward to learning new things in the near future!
