{"id":6836,"date":"2016-12-07T02:01:13","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T07:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=6836"},"modified":"2016-12-07T03:46:09","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T08:46:09","slug":"early-december-yarning-along-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=6836","title":{"rendered":"early december yarning along"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s less than a month until Christmas, which means all the current projects are gifts I can’t show you. I can, however, show you my latest finished project, my Christmas mitts!<\/p>\n

\"Christmas<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Christmas<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

I cast these on three years ago<\/a> to be a pair of socks when I realized that the other stripy Christmas yarn I had, which has white stripes as well as red and green, would not hide the grime of holding onto Metro escalators nearly as well as this pair. So I switched things up and these became a pair of improvised fingerless mitts, and the other yarn became socks<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Last Christmas I bound off the first one with a sewn picot bind-off similar to the cast on I’d used, but I wasn’t happy with it. This year, I ripped that back and experimented with a different picot bind-off. Then I ripped it back again to get a unified color bind-off. And once more to add in some seed stitch in that final stripe to try to control the rolling. (It wasn’t successful.) I will give it the season to see if I can live with it, and if I can’t, I’ll try to come up with a new solution next year. I also bound off the thumb at least three times, trying to find a non-ridiculous solution to that with a picot, but eventually conceded it was beyond my ken and just did a garter bind-off.<\/p>\n

I also had to duplicate stitch over the thumb join on the second mitt when I rejoined the yarn in red, rather than the green of the first one and didn’t notice until after I’d sewn in all the ends. I can see I’ve done it, but I don’t think the casual observer would notice.<\/p>\n

The yarn is Beyond Basic Knits Stripey Superwash Sock in an undisclosed colorway. She seems to have shuttered her shop since I bought this yarn at the Shenandoah Valley Fiber Festival<\/a> back in 2009. I probably only used half the skein, so there could be more Christmassy knits in my future, particularly since there was yarn leftover from the socks, too.<\/p>\n

\"Early<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

There was not a ton of time for reading last week, so I didn’t finish either book I was working on, What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours<\/em> by Helen Oyeyemi and The Girl Who Drank the Moon<\/em> by Kelly Barnhill. I did start three new books this week, though, to add to the collection: Jay Asher’s new Christmas YA novel, What Light<\/em>, about a girl growing up on a Christmas tree farm; Dear Data<\/em>, a nonfiction art book of weekly postcards exchanged between two visual data compilers, Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec; and Jane and the Twelve Days of Christmas<\/em> by Stephanie Barron. I’m listening to that last one, part of a historical fiction mystery series starring author Jane Austen as the sleuth. I started that series years ago, but got sidetracked from it. I recommended it as a seasonal read to someone from my Twitter book club last year and she enjoyed it, so I decided to give it a go myself out of sequence this Christmas.<\/p>\n

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Yarning along with Ginny at Small Things<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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