The First FO of 2010!

I'm not proud. I'll take my FOs any way I can get them. So what if this project has been on the needles for two or three or five years?



It's done!

The pattern is Nancie Wiseman's Textured Squares Scarf (Ravelry link). It's supposed to be shaped like a vee. But I made it a straight piece about two feet long. I'll get more use out of it as a neckwarmer.



The yarn is a thick/thin that I bought at Rhinebeck. No idea of its name. It makes a nice, dense fabric. I think I'll be a little rough with the scarf when I first wash it and maybe it will felt a little bit.

Stay tuned for another five years to see how that turns out!

The State of the Knitting

I recently went digging through my project landfill bag.

These two projects made me pause--frog or continue?



This is the Textured Squares Scarf.
When finished, it's supposed to look like a vee. I haven't reached the turning point yet. But I think I may knit a couple of rows and bind off. It'll be long enough to wrap around my neck and secure with a pin. The yarn is a nice thick and thin that I bought at Rhinebeck years ago.



I started these years and years ago. Fingerless gloves for the hubster. The pattern is something generic. The yarn is my favorite--Zara. I had loving intentions -- but I had no idea what I was doing!

I didn't have a clue what "pick up the stitches" meant. I couldn't even read the rib stitch correctly! So I have holes between the fingers and one finger is done in seed stitch instead of ribbing. One glove has four poorly knit fingers and no thumb. On the other glove, I stopped before I knit the fingers.

I'll continue this project also. I have enough yarn to frog the fingers and start over. For the other glove, the hubster told me that when he goes out to shoot photos, he'd like one glove with semi-fingers and one without fingers. OK--that's doable!

So only two UFOs--that's not so bad!