Erica’s Blog

 Cranked this out in a couple of hours last night.  It’s one of the aforementioned wristwarmers/fingerless mitts for our fave babysitter, Angela.  I used a spare ball of Debbie Bliss Cashmerino Aran leftover from one of MEY’s commissions (the Roman Stripe scarf for her MIL).  The pattern is an “unpattern” or more of a formula (a la EZ) from Wendy Bernard.  Considering the source, I think of them as…Mitts and Tonic!

[Aside to the knitters out there:  I "get" the whole knitting in the round on two circ's thing after just a little bit of time w/the Cat Bordhi book Zib gave me.  HOWEVER, what I can't wrap my brain around is how to knit two items (socks, mitts, sleeves, whatever) on two circ's at the same time.  For me, this is the whole entire reason for knitting on two circ's -- to knit both at the same time, thus finishing them both at the same time and having them exactly the same, instead of one being a round or two longer than the other, etc.  Anybody got any tips?  Any locals like Kat wanna volunteer to show me how?]

Please note that I have added a yarn/fiber wishlist to my sidebar.  Since ya can’t really put this stuff on Amazon, I thought I’d do it in blog form.

This is both a way for me to remember my Gee, I’d love to try that stuff out sometime yarns and also as direction for anyone who feels inspired at gift-giving occasions to give me yarn or fiber for spinning. (Something in red for Valentine’s Day, perhaps, Hubby?)

I will, of course, be adding to this quite often…

The Knittyboard gals have decided not to do the ABCalong in 2007, so to say farewell, here’s a collage of my fave pictures from the 2006 ABCalong: