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Painted Damsel Socks

Woohoo! I finished knitting these socks that I started back in November.

They are so squishy and comfortable. I just love this yarn and the colors are pretty great too.

Details:Pattern - Diagonal Cross Rib socks by Ann Budd in Favorite Socks by Interweave. (affiliate link)Yarn - Painted Damsel Skinny Bugga by Sanguine Gryphon.Last weekend I put them on double points to hold them until I could finish them. I wanted to have something easier to knit at M's graduation ceremonies. Look how much I knit during the first graduation event. I cast on after we took our seats. After two days of graduation events I'm ready to start the heel.

The Painted Damsel socks are number 15 in my Stash 100 project - to knit 100 things (or pairs of things) from my stash.  The new socks will soon be project 16. I'm on a roll, the 2x2 rib socks knit up much faster than the patterned socks. 

Just in Time for Single Digits

This earflap cap for Miss P came off the needles just in time for the current single digit temperatures.

The pattern is the Danish Earflap Cap from Hats On by Charlene Schurch. The yarn is Artyarns Supermerino. The hem is knit on size 4 needles and the outer hat is knit on size 6.

I checked Ravelry and saw that her favorite hat that she still wears was finished FOUR years ago. It barely covers any of her forehead now.  I made sure to allow for some growing room in this hat.

She loves the braided ties on this one and that it is SUPER warm with the double layer of the hem.In decreasing the top, I added alternate knit rounds between the decrease rounds to keep the top more smooth as I did when making D's new hat. 

Here's hoping we have lots of snow to play in this year!! 

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Warming Gifts

Here's the hat I knit for M for Christmas! He chose the pattern, Northern Lights, and blue and yellow (U of M colors) wool from my stash for the main colors. He told me to surprise him with the other colors. I ended up starting this about four times before getting it right. I cursed it for a while but I'm happy with the way it turned out.

I'll also have to check what happened there where it looks like there is an orange stitch that should be green....  I didn't notice that until I was just looking at the picture on the screen.  I'll have to duplicate stitch over it in green. I must have been half asleep while knitting that part. Heck, I think I was half asleep while knitting the whole thing.

The rest of my holiday gift making was rather mundane like crew socks for the members of the family who wear sandals all winter.  Other gifts were knit and shared earlier in the year - potholders, mitts, and mittens.

Instagram Photos

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