Not Enough Time for Knitting!

Everyone only has twenty-four hours a day.   My twenty-four hours each day have not been well-organized enough to include an adequate amount of knitting.    The more I knit, the calmer I am.   Calm is good.  

The mittens are moving along nicely.  The first mitten is still in progress.  I am really enjoying this project.   While the colorwork requires a lot of concentration and is very picky, I find it soothing.  

As the work progresses, I am more and more pleased with the colorway that I choose.  Betsy, at Depth of Field, and I looked at the available choices.  We discussed what would work as a light and a dark to provide a nice contrast with the black and the white.   The original pattern colorway is a lot brighter than this.   These colors are a lot more me.   Half the fun of these projects is choosing what colors will work together.   When my choice works well, I am really happy.   It makes me want to do more colorwork.  Good thing...as I have seven Christmas stockings to make this year.

The throw is also coming along.  That needs to be done soon and I don't want to rush it.   There is also a pair of thick socks in progress at work.   I do tend to have multiple things going.   Sometimes a project comes along that I have to do because I really, really want to ... and I have to do it now.

Petunia the Pig...or the medium pig....as the pattern describes it....was too cute not to do for Ana. 

Ana has a birthday coming.  She is now into farm animal.   This pattern is well-written and a fast knit.  The end product is a really cute little pig.

Ana got it yesterday and loved it.   The medium version of the pig is great for little hands.  

This is another "genius" shaping example.  I marvel at the minds that work like this...and I wish that mine did!