Yup folks, here they are, a tiny scale of a mitt from my Tartan & Tweed I’m redesigning & overhauling , and they’re made of Malabrigo Sock yarn. Great stash-bust project. Aren’t they so cute? (admittedly, they are a little bumpy and could use a steam pressing). This is also the kick-start of the Christmas gift-making, and so we’ve got one little item checked off the list. (( shhh…. no names will be mentioned, as these are all surprises.))
Category Archives: Nora
Kitty
This *possibly may be* the only gift I plan on knitting for the holidays this year. I started with a Louisa Harding pattern, a very simple pattern indeed, thinking for a first-time toy knitting, I couldn’t go wrong. Ah, but I couldn’t help myself from changing it all around… so this is a very modified version. I used up some left over pima cotton boucle yarn from her baby blanket I made almost 3 years ago, and stuffed it with a bit of wool fleece I had in my loft closet…not bad for a first toy , eh? Kitty is purring and ready to go to Nora for Christmas!
I was up against a decision just before Nora’s kitty was finished: 1. Spend from now until xmas knitting gifts, or 2. Design fun new things! Though in recent years not my first choice, but gifts can always be bought , so I am choosing to work on new ideas through the holidays instead. ::sigh of relief:: ((however, this doesn’t prevent me from giving away my prototypes…lol)
Coming up: Another something to add to the ” Vineyard Rows” ensemble, as well as another thing from a ways back… in blue !
an itty bitty glimpse
Remember these ?
Are those the mitts . . .
For the wee hands . . .
that I knit for Nora ?
Nora who might not even be yet Two ?
. . . and they fit !!!
Mini Mitts For Nora
Tiny and bright. Too cute for words.
Miniature version of the Pin-Striped Fingerless Mitts
For Little Nora (who will soon be two!)
I knit these little things pretty darned tight on the very skinny #0 needles… so there’s some ‘laddering’ going down the middle of the mitts. I love the affect of the variegated yarn too.
Nora’s Christmas Chulo
One hat, knit for one twenty-month old Nora, for Christmas.
Knit totally improvised, over a couple of days, mostly during one Christmas party, and one long hike walking the hills.
Now finished, and will send off in the mail. I love it, and I think she will too. Made from one-hundred percent Peruvian alpaca yarn, who couldn’t?
Well anyway, this is the first of as many gifts as I can possibly knit up until Christmas, which will be all posted in succession. Starting another immediately… something stripey & pepperminty.
Details on Ravelry here .
Loveliness.
Nora & Her Mom
This photo is likely months old already, but I was sent it only just now, telling of how the baby blanket I knit last April for Little Nora is getting good use. I’m so flattered!