Amazing what you can do with no distractions!

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Without steady access to the Internet, it was a big adjustment at first. Once the panic subsided, I realized I was given a huge opportunity to actually FINISH SOMETHING without distraction.


Well, that lasted about 30 seconds and then I was off to the stash to see what else I could dig up. You see, when we moved, I found all kind of things that I’d erased from my memory forgotten about. Apparently some things for a reason.


I did manage to do quite a bit of work on my Debbie Bliss Sweater. I’ve finished the back and the front and have hit the knitter’s black hole. I have 2 sleeves to do, each consisting of 20 inches of moss stitch. Mind numbing soul sucking moss stitch.


I call this sweater Maggie’s Naggies because my darling friend Maggie so gently nags reminds me that it’s truly lovely and I should finish it.
 

Unfortunately it doesn’t photograph well, but here’s the picture on the cover of the book.





I’ve also been a busy beaver on Christmas presents. Someone is getting socks. Well, at least one sock. This is my old standby Briggs and Little pattern. Honestly you can’t beat it for drop dead easy heel turning and wearability.





I also started myself some Thrum Mittens. I’ve been wanting these for a while, and now that I have to walk 20 minutes to the bus, I’m thinking that winter in Toronto might be a bit more tolerable with these babies. I felt quite spastic when I first started them – balancing four dpn’s along with three thrum’s was an interesting feat, but the more wine I had, the easier it was! I bought the kit from Belle Valle Wools near Timmons. Believe me, they have warm wool!




I bought enough of a yummy apricot/orange colour to make mittens and a hat, maybe even a scarf. The little white thingies poking out are supposed to look like hearts (according to them), but maybe it was too much wine because they don’t look like hearts to me. The entire inside of the mitten is filled with “thrum”. Stephanie (Yarn Harlot) has a much better picture of the inside than I could get, so I’m just going to link to her site.



I finally finished Thomas the Tank Engine for my grandson’s Christmas present. I ripped out the face (Thomas’s, not Brandon’s) 7 times because he kept looking like Chuckie.


Finally my friend Julia took sympathy on me and told me to do the stitching with a thinner thread. Voila! This is the first and last time I will knit with colour. I didn’t like doing it at all – I am a cable knitter not a colour knitter and I had a real challenge with the bobbins (built in cat toys) and my tension. Only for Brandon would I do this to myself







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5 thoughts on “Amazing what you can do with no distractions!”

  2. I would love to have the pattern from the Thomas the Tank Engine sweater. My boss son just loves him. I would love to knit him a sweater. It would reallly mean a lot to him.

  3. I’m glad you liked it Anne, but unfortunately it’s a patten that’s under copyright. I puchased it on ebay, so I’d suggest that you check there 🙂

  4. i just love you thomas sweater and i totaly understand the ripping out thing, sometimes i get so frustrated that i throw the project at my poor husband. i was wondering if you could share the pattern for this sweater with me? i have 2 grandsons one is almost5 and the other is 18mo. and they are both nut over thomas. and it seem like every year when it comes to christmas that someone else has always gotten them the new thomas so this would be one thing they can’t give them because none of them knit! ha ha on them thanks melanie moffitt here is my email: hugabugabear@frontiernet.net

  5. Thanks Melanie, but I’m afraid that the pattern is under copyright. I purchased it on ebay and they quite often have Thomas patterns that don’t go for much more than a couple of dollars.

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