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Deep breath

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Take a deep breath.  Hold it.

A little longer.

Slowly exhale.

Repeat.

I needed to clear my mind.  Thanks for breathing along with me.

2010 was a start for me as most years are.  I didn’t get as much of my life organized as I wanted but I made some progress.

I knitted more this year than I have in past years:

  1. Hot Water Bottle Covers: 2
  2. Toys: 5 – though I only have pictures of two of them
  3. Sweaters: 2 eyelet sweaters for the twins, 1 February Baby Sweater
  4. Seamless slippers: 7 pairs
  5. Sleeveless top: 1, the Lace Hem Top for me
  6. Mittens and mitts: 1 Ms Ida Chain Link Mittens, and 1 Musica Mitts
  7. Hats: 8 Spud and Chloe Go Team Hats

I made polymer clay buttons for a sweater.

I tried my hand at felt ornaments and finished two.

Sewing projects, not mentioned here, expanded my FO list.

I made my Christmas cards and garland for the tree.

And I painted my dining and living rooms.

Tomorrow is another day and the beginning of a shiny new year. 

What do I want to accomplish in the next 365 days?

What are your goals for 2011?

Hats!

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Office hats

Lion Brand Wool-Ease Worsted Weight yarn in Forest Green, Mushroom, Avocado, Navy, and Oxford Grey using size 11 US dpns.

Mods: I didn’t make the I-cord and pom poms.  I added a third color stripe to three of the hats.  The top left was done in a Helix stripe as shown on Knitting Daily TV episode 311 at marker 5:26.

Each Spud and Chloe Go Team hat took about 2 1/2 hours to knit.  The Helix took a little longer as untwisting the yarn colors at each needle was time-consuming. 

I knit a total of eight hats using this pattern this month but only have pictures of six of them.  I really liked how quick this was to knit and easy to customize.  On one hat I made tassels instead of pom poms (not shown).

Ms Ida pictures

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I gifted the Ms Ida Chain Link mittens to my sister and she sent me a picture of them.  For some reason I forget to take the pictures before I gift something.

Ms Ida Chain Link mittens

I followed the pattern (large) including the yarn and colors except I left off one diamond repeat on the thumb and it was plenty long.   My original plan was to make these flip top mittens but I was having such a time with the thumbs that we (my sister and I) decided the flip top wasn’t necessary.

I used Knit Picks City Tweed in Dungaree and Andean Silk in Cream.  I loved working with this yarn though it is sticky.  Just don’t make many mistakes to tink or frog.

Thinking I would make two pairs of these mittens, I bought another Andean Silk in cream and City Tweed in Cottontail that appears to be discontinued.  It’s a taupe color.  I’ll find something else to knit with it.

Paper garland tutorial

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This…

circles

Turned into this…

Merry Christmas Garland

Merry Christmas closeup

Closeup 2

Materials used:  card stock (I used green and white card stock), 1 1/2 inch circle punch, black thread (or any color that works for you), glue, typewriter key font, computer, printer

This particular font is available in black keys and white/clear keys and I used the white/clear keys so I didn’t use up so much ink and the cardstock color was more visible. 

I had to fiddle with the size font (105 pt) to fit inside the circle punch.  20 “keys” fit on my paper, four across and five down.  Cutting the paper into strips made it easier to get the punch centered on the letter.

The circles are glued back-to-back with black thread in between for some toddler-proof garland.  It’s made so if the circles flip over, the letters are still the right way.  Our tree has so many lights on it that I couldn’t get a picture with the garland on the tree so I tried it on the banister. 

This was very easy and relatively inexpensive.  Cardstock can be purchased from Staples for five cents a sheet so you don’t have to buy an entire ream for this project.  The circle punch was on sale at 40% off and can be used for other projects.

If you have any questions, just leave a comment and I’ll reply as soon as I can.