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It’s here!

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Yay!  My yarn arrived this afternoon just in time for me to pack something new for our road trip.  Of course, the yarn already has 1,286 miles on it.  Almost 1,000 more than it should.

It was dark by the time I got home from work so I don’t have a picture to show you the yarn I bought.  I did glance through the sock book (Around the World in Knitted Socks) and discovered I didn’t have the size 1 needles to start any of the socks.  Of course I didn’t look at all the patterns but the first few definitely use size 1.  I may regret my plan to knit every sock in the book.  Size 1 needles are small!

I’m taking the soakers and Swiffer covers to work on in the car.  I still have to sew on the soles for the seamless slippers I’m gifting to Mrs. Professor.  I’m also taking yarn for the Musica Mitts and a fabulous hat pattern from Spud and Chloe to make for the some little heads that will need to be covered this winter.

I probably won’t get to post until Tuesday. 

I must finish packing.

 Have a great weekend!

More travel knitting

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Mr. Aitch and I are leaving tomorrow morning for Tennessee.  One of his former students teaches at Eastern Tennessee State University and is hosting a regional band festival this weekend.  Mr. Aitch is one of the guest conductors.  I’ll be hanging out with Mrs. Professor on Friday while they are rehearsing so I’ll see if she knows of any yarn shops in the area.

It’s about a seven to eight-hour drive one way so I wanted to take some knitting to work on while riding shotgun.  I can be prone to some motion sickness so I can’t work on anything too complicated.

Swiffer covers (my daughter-in-law saw mine and would like a few), soakers that I started when I went to Philadelphia and haven’t touched since, and seamless slippers are relatively mindless.

I’d like to start on the Musica mitts/cigar gloves for Mr. Aitch but that yarn is “in transit” and back in Capital Heights, Maryland.

Ms Ida is still in a time-out.

Tea cozy pattern

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A few weeks ago someone posted a pattern or link for a knitted pumpkin tea cozy.  I thought I saved the link to it but evidently I didn’t.  I’ve done a search for the cozy but haven’t found the one I was looking for.

It had deep ridges, was orange (duh),  and was a free pattern.  Other than those facts I can’t remember any more about it.

Does anyone remember this tea cozy?

Is it me or errata?

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I decided to finish Ms Ida.  The thumb seemed a bit too tight so I moved up from a size 4 dpn to a size 8.  With the color changes I must be tightening my grip and needed to go up a few needle sizes.   Plus my other dpns were in other projects.

I’m having some confusion with the thumb decreases while following the chart so I contacted the designer. 

I’m wishing I didn’t try to make them flip top mittens but as soon as I finish the thumbs, I’ll see if I can make it all work out.