Bella Mittens for KLC

It took a few months to finish these. Mostly because warming weather makes knitting with wool from Iceland a ridiculous pasttime. But, I did finish them, because the weather hasn't always been so balmy.

See here for pattern: http://subliminalrabbit.blogspot.com/2008/12/bellas-mittens-updated-pattern.html

Because I am Committed to Revisability

The very first thing I ever knit, and way back in 2003, was a scarf for my bff Suze. It was 15 feet long and very narrow. She graciously accepted it, and even wore it a few times (it is for reasons like this that Suze is my bff). Realising that it wasn't going to get much play and wasn't very useful, I thought it best to take the scarf back, tear it apart, and make something new to offer to her.

I made the Morningside Cowl for myself over the holidays. I wear mine all the time. I thought, what better than to make la Suze something already known to be useful? So, I've spent the past month's worth of Friday afternoons knitting it for her and, because I was so close to done, finished it last night.

Very soon she will be visiting and I will offer it to her then.


(Edited January 2010)

Suze modelling the cowl:

Reckless, or, This Could Have Gone Horribly Wrong

Despite many weeks spent thinking about the dress in advance of the event:
2 Days before - couldn't decide on a pattern. Bought two, picked one and cut it out.
Night before (and until 4am) - made bodice sans muslin.
Day of - drafted new skirt pattern, abandonned it. Added pockets to the original pattern, ripped them out. Sewed skirt, sans muslin.
8 pm that night - realised the bodice was far far too big and so made a last minute and temporary alteration.
9:30pm - made it to pre-party.

Although they're impractical when it's really cold out...

One night on a post-exam bar tour, I lost the first pair of Pearl's Topless Mitts that I knit. Although I called the many bars I'd stopped at several times in the weeks that followed, the mitts never turned up. I knit the second pair of Pearl's Topless Mitts for my sister. This is my third pair.

Because sometimes cold wind blows down my back

I learned the brioche stitch (it took two days, several starts and a season of the Wire) to make this cowl. It keeps me warm. Which sort of works out, because Halifax is by no means balmy.

Though this isn't my brother, this is the hat I knit for him. It took over a year to finish. It's keeping him warm in Montreal.