Attempting to climb on board a moving boat

Trying to get back into the swing of blogging is much like being swimming along in a fast moving river and trying to climb aboard a boat also moving along in the quick current.

There's always so much that I had wanted to share that has floated on by that I've often given up without even trying to climb back onto my blogging boat!  I decided I would do a bit of show-and-tell while I get my sea legs back! So, here goes....

(Quick! Look away now, if crafty show-and-tell annoys you.) 

This winter I knitted up neckwarmers and mitts for family, friends, neighbors, and teachers.  The neckwarmers are great for littles because they don't experience the "unwrapped & dragging on the ground" effect that often happens when you put scarves on small children and send them out to play.  Mitts are always just so good.  For the littles' knitted goods, I used a wool-blend yarn that was safe to launder, and didn't have a dye lot. I did everything in garter stitch, with bulky yarn and big needles. Not only do things knit up quickly this way, replacing a missing mitt is easy enough to do.

Here are a few of the pieces:

neckwarmers and mitts for Sunny and Maggie

The "masculine" neckwarmers for Gryphon and Joe (along with mitts for Gryph.)

neckwarmers that headed out as gifts...

 

mitts that headed to a neighbor's (terrible photo; sorry.)

my set

 

Other notes:

I made the various flowers and leaves from bits of felted sweaters I have in my fabric stash.  The felt balls were from a pack given to me by a friend several years ago.  

Comments

[Glenda Hoagland]

So glad to see you blogging this week. I was concerned about you and thought of you this week. My prayers were answers because here you are. Love the neck warmers and mitts. Take care