Gray Owlies

Last year I embarked on what was to become a series of mitts. My eldest step-daughter asked for some fingerless mitts in gray at some point. I recall having some yarn left over from this hat so decided to see if I could get the mitts out of the rest of the 100g skein. Which I did. Yay!

At some point a work colleague declared her desire for some in black. I forget which I cast on first, the gray or the black but whichever it was, I finally finished them at the end of winter. The gray mitts are still in the works. I realised last night there was no project entry on Ravelry, so I created one and today added a photo of the pathetic progress I have made so far,almost one year later. I even knitted a couple of rows today once I got them back on the needles - after languishing in a basket for too many months on dpns, half the stitches had come off.

Too much repetition bores me and I lose interest rather quickly. Sometimes completing a project is tedious beyond measure and I've got to that point with this version of the Owlies. The good thing about repeating this project is it set me up for making the Java socks later on which used a lot of the two stitch cable that really required learning to do them with no cable needle. It came in handy again when making Angostura. I also have the Bayerische socks in my queue to work on sometime as a toe up sock. But that's a project and a half, I'm not sure I'm quite up to the level of redesigning something just yet.

That's it for this post. I've spent some of this weekend updating my stash and adding photos of both stash yarns and projects. In time I hope it will be a better record of my progress than it has been.