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One down…

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…one to go.  I finished the left Musica mitt last night and started the right one.  Since both have different patterns, I think the next one will be as quick and the first.  No boring knitting.

Left Musica Mitt

The yarn color is very close to the border on this page, kind of a dusky blue.  The photo is much brighter.

We started our Christmas decorating around the house and Mr. Aitch wants to put the lights up outside this afternoon while it’s sunny and above freezing.

I have some more FO’s to show you later this week.

Musica mitts cast on

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I started the Musica mitts over the weekend when I wasn’t getting ready for our early Thanksgiving dinner…which will be tonight.  My son has to work on Thanksgiving so he and his family are coming to our house for dinner tonight.  Mr. Aitch is in charge of getting the turkey in the oven as I have to work today.

I’ve already got the pumpkin pies, candied yams, cooked/baked and the stuffing is made.  Green bean casserole and mashed potatoes will be made as soon as I get home.  I hope I can leave for home a little early today.

Anyway, back to the Musica mitts.  I am making these for Mr. Aitch for Christmas so he can smoke his cigars outside in the winter and keep his hands warm at the same time.  He is a retired band director, still directs the church choir and plays in several community bands so I thought these would be fitting with his musical life.

Musica Mitts overview

I’m using Knit Picks Stroll in fingering weight.  Knitting on size 3 (US) needles instead of the 2.5 as instructed.  I want them to be a bit larger than the pattern.  I repeated the first few rows as well to make them longer.  I also might make fingers for the ring finger and pinky.  We’ll see how it goes.

Musica Mitts closer

Sorry for the low quality pictures.  I used my phone and the lighting was poor.

It’s funny how much I contemplated over the colors: Dusk and Midnight Heather.  Mr. Aitch is partially colorblind so all he’s going to see are blue and black.  Whatever.

I hope I can work on these this weekend.  I also have to finish the soakers and Ms Ida Mittens.  The twins’ birthdays are this month and I have a few things I need to finish.

It will all come together, right?

Girl Friday

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It’s been a long week at work and it was a short week at that!  We had a very important meeting today and though I don’t conduct the meetings, I do have to make sure everything runs smoothly.  Get there early.  Make sure the I pick up  refreshments for the meeting before the meeting.  Remember extra agendas, markers, flip chart pads and anything else we need for the meeting.  If you are an administrative assistant or office manager, you know what I’m talking about.  There’s a lot of behind-the-scenes work to make meetings run smooth and an organization look good.  That’s one of the things I do.

My reward for the day was I got to go home early.  It was only an hour and a half but it was early enough to capture daylight for my latest yarn purchases.

Latest yarn order November 2010

Fingering weight

The midnight heather (a nice dark navy) and dusk are for the Musica mitts for Mr. Aitch.  http://coalabaer.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/fingerless-gloves-musica2.pdf   (Sorry the link button isn’t working right now.)  I want them to be a Christmas gift but might not get them finished in time.  If I don’t have any problems with the pattern, it should be a breeze.  Key word is “if”. 

Ruffled Bottle Sleeves

The red is for “Ruffled Bottle Sleeves “. 

Papaya Heather

This beautiful color is going to be made into a Drops Design short jacket 117-43 for me.  I didn’t order enough yarn for this as I was figuring the yarn by weight and not yardage.  More yarn is on the way.  I won’t start this until all my other Christmas things are finished.

Courtesy of Garns Studio

 The coal, cobblestone and red are planned to be a version of Eva Katarina’s Bird and Vine mittens.  You can check this out on Ravelry’s site.   http://www.ravelry.com/projects/EvaKatharina/endpaper-mitts   I wasn’t sure if the cobblestone would be too dark so I also ordered the dove grey just in case.

Right now I’m making some hats from Spud and Chloe mentioned in an earlier post for the twin’s birthday coming up next month.  I’m using some stash yarns and will show you pictures as soon as I’m finished.  The pattern is very quick.  I started the hat Wednesday morning before I went to work and finished the body of it this morning.  I’m getting ready to start on the earflaps.

The seamless slippers for Dr. Professor are finished except for the soles.  Pictures will follow.

I really need to finish the Ms Ida mittens.  I’ll see if I can get her to behave.  Sad when all I have left to do are the thumbs.  I will not let her get the best of me.

The formatting on WordPress isn’t working very well tonight so I think I’m going to give up trying to get the links to work.  I’m posting this later than usual and am looking forward to a day when I can sleep in.  And guess what?  Tomorrow is that day!!

Quickie

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Driving for seven hours in one day is tiring.  And I didn’t drive at all this extended weekend.  I rode everywhere.  I’m still tired!

Mrs. Professor liked her slippers.  I started another pair of the seamless slippers for Dr. Professor but didn’t get both of them finished.  I was knitting in the car and discovered a major flaw about ten rows back on the second one.  I couldn’t correct the mistake while riding (motion sickness issues) so I will work on them this week.  Dr. and Mrs Professor will be in our area over Thanksgiving (next week) and I hope to give them to him then.

Another Swiffer cover is about half way finished.  I didn’t get as much knitting done as I anticipated.  I did have to stop and look at the scenery.

We toured Biltmore in Ashville, North Carolina.  Have you been there?  Awesome to say the least.  We also traveled a bit on the Blue Ridge Parkway.  The views were breathtaking!

Mr. Aitch did a fabulous job with his portion of the program.

If I can get home from work tomorrow while it’s still daylight, I will show you my latest yarn order and the plans for the yarn.  I’ve already discovered I didn’t order enough yarn for one project 😦 and must see if they can send me more yarn in the same dye lot.  Substituting one yarn for another has always been a problem for me.

I have a lot of Christmas knitting to do and I will save the socks for after-Christmas-knitting.