I decided to make these fingerless gloves so I could keep my hands warm and type at the same time. The pattern is loosely based on the same mitten pattern I used to make Jenny's mittens over the summer. I just elongated the wrists and didn't close to top. I wish that I had made them a little bit shorter and wider in the hand, as they aren't quite ideal for stretching my fingers across a keyboard, but other than that I am pleased.
Pew Pew!
I made them from alpaca yarn I bought at the Big E in September. It was fun to work with a new material, as I've mostly just knit with cottons and acrylics. This stuff had the tendency to make felted fuzzballs ensconcing the yarn as I ran it through my fingers. It was also kind of prone to knotting. It's nice and soft and warm though, so it was great for these wristwarmers.
I enjoy knitting, especially when my projects are done, but I do find that it's an activity that makes me swear like a sailor. There always seems to be a new way to screw things up, but it's a learning experience.
I was thinking that for my next project, I'd try to whip out a scarf for my bro in law Ryan real quick before Christmas. This kid loves cats. When he was little, he had plans to open up a restaurant with a special room in it where you could go and play with kitties while you waited for your meal. I thought I might put a silhouette of a cat head on it. I haven't done any color work before, so I wanted something simple to start. Something like this maybe:
You know, simple round head, pointy ears. However, my search for cat scarf patterns only turned up horrible scary possibilities:
http://www.stylehive.com/bookmark/etsy-mohair-cheshire-cat-scarf-hand-knit-black-and-purple-stripes-animal-charity-246503
This one, oddly enough, was described as a pattern for cat lovers.http://www.highcountryknitwear.com/pussycat.shtml
I like that this one has no pretensions to livelihood in a flattened animal.http://www.fashionfunky.com/2007/09/dead_cat_scarves_to_replace_fu.php
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