I've been knitting a lot for my etsy shop lately and feeling like all my personal projects are backing up and stalling out. That afghan I was knitting on earlier in the week has already been put aside to make some knitted chickens for the shop (I'll post on them later) as they are small and easy to finish. All my other knitting seems to be big and long in process so I decided to stash bust a few bulky skeins from Luna Grey Fiber Arts. Something quick and easy seemed just the thing to give me a sense of accomplishment and some much needed forward movement. Below is what I came up with a simple loosely knit ribbed cowl and some matching fingerless mitts.
The cowl was knit with size 13 needles and took me a mere 2 hours last night to knit. And for the record, I am a slow to average knitter so this was really fast for me. As you can see I already have it blocking and this morning I knit up one of a pair of fingerless mitts. Hopefully this afternoon I will finish the other of the pair and that will be two skeins out of my yarn stash knit into useful items. I will still have some leftover yarn, which drives me nuts by the by, but maybe I'll knit some kind of bracelet/cuff just to use it up. What do you think about doing some embroidery on the backs of the mitts? I was thinking an orange flower/s might be fun as almost everything in my wardrobe (if you can call my collection of clothes that) is solid colored, but then it might also limit their wear-ability. Any thoughts?
Joining in with Linda for Creative Friday on a Saturday.
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