So, I finished the lumpy animal body for my nephew, when I relized that his birthday is at the end of May while my sister’s birthday (his mom) is in 2 weeks. Hmm…
I looked through the list of knitted items she said she’d like (I requested one from each family member a while back, with measurements), and I decided on a mesh bag she can use for groceries or whatnot. The pattern is the Kitchen Sink Bag from knitty. The yarn is Sugar n’ Cream, 100% cotton.
I started out with the red, and then switched to the multi-colored yarn, and it all looked good. Then I ran out of yarn, and looked through the stash for something else that might go with it, and Randall and I decided the blue would go best, but after a few rows, I decided that’s not so good, so I ripped it out yesterday morning, after I went and bought another ball of the multi-colored yarn Tuesday night. They don’t sell the wine color any more… We’ll see how it goes from here.
That’s it for my gifts (for this post), but Randall knit me a hat out of Homespun to match the mittens I knit eons ago. He didn’t approve of me wearing my blue mittens with the red hat he knit me.
It’s the only Homespun that didn’t go to the Girl Scouts. For some reason, he wanted to see how bad it was to knit with. He agreed giving it away was the right move. It’s just doesn’t have enough give, and as such is a pain to knit with.
Man, my mittens look dirty…
