David e-mailed the other day saying that the Company-Which-Shall-Not-Be-Named is sending him to the Netherlands on the 11th. (I must admit that I was hoping more than a little that at least one of us -- cough! me! cough -- would be allowed to go with him, but alas, no, it is far too short a trip this time around.) But it is cold in the Netherlands in the middle of January! So I started planning a pair of knitted mitts for him, and thought of this leftover bit of Trekking XXL from my "1810 Socks" a couple of years back, which socks are in fact one of the warmest pairs I've knitted, so it was lucky that the color is a fairly subdued and not-unmanly one. I finished them in 48 hours -- pretty good, if I may say so myself. This is about 49g of the leftovers, with still a bit left from that.
And he got his passport renewed and back in his hands in a week, to our astonishment!
I'm also having another go at the infamous "Kid Mohair Wrap" that I gave up on the last time around. This time I have four balls of Kidsilk Haze, here in 634, a gentle cream color. I am already doubting my math, though that may just be nerves. Talking of time, I am keeping track of how long it takes to knit this, as I intend to donate it to my choir's annual raffle -- six hours to get this far, through the bottom border and one repeat of the center pattern. Seventeen more repeats to go, and then the top border! Wish me luck!
People think you are a knitting goddess when they see something like that with kidsilkhaze haze. Hope it raises lots of money. And I'm sure you have plenty of yarn. PS did you see the PBS show about Shavkleton with the modern guys wearing period clothing? I wondered who had been knitting for them.
Posted by: Mary Lou | January 11, 2014 at 06:31 AM