Knitting again

Date: 03 September 2009 22:12:22

I have spent this evening partly re-reading Michael Ramsey's The Christian Priest Today and then, as a reward for doing theology reading on my day off*, I have been bringing my Ravelry page up to scratch, uploading photos and updating project details.

The knitters among you may be surprised to hear that yesterday, for about half an hour, I had NO works in progress. Not one. I have finished the mittens, the clapotis and even the miniature stocking that was for my sister at Christmas last year. Don't worry, I started another miniature stocking in a different pattern so I would not be fretting unduly in the night.

Future knitting plans include a hat to accompany the mittens (it gets quite chilly here and we don't heat the church building for morning and evening prayer). I say 'accompany' rather than 'match' since the colours couldn't be more different. We'll see. I may make more mittens to match at some point. I also have plans for more socks - some in a toe-up pattern so I can see just how long a skein of Shepherd Sock will go and some using fairisle.

Anyway, here are some pics of the stuff I have recently finished.

This was Esme helping me to lay Clapotis out pre-blocking.

And here is a mitten. You can see the mitten top that folds over the fingers when needed.

It was a bit tricky taking pictures of both mittens, given that one hand was needed to operate the camera shutter, but I found the timer switch and here you go. Never realised how pretty the radiator was before...

Clicking on any of the photos will take you to many, many more photos of yarn of various sorts. Feel free, but don't say I didn't warn you.

In final knitting-related news, the dpn that I lost during the mittens turned up down between the (non-removable) sofa cushions this evening. I've only looked there about 20 times already. Anyway, much rejoicing.

PS Day 3 of no-cake month complete. Still 5 cakes of pastoral necessity remaining

* I have a study morning on it tomorrow, led by the Bishop. I just thought it might be wise to do a bit of revision.