jan's gloves

this is the first of my take on knitty's knucks for my friend jan from church. i have officially decided that i will only make fingerless gloves when coerced at gunpoint from here on out.  

seriously.  

my favorite thing about this project is the buttons i picked as an accent.

i don't even want to make the second one... 

the glove.  just hangin' out...

the 3x3 ribbed edge i decided on after

i almost went insane trying to do seed stitch for fifteen rows

 

bella's hand is a little small in these!

update:  12.19

the gloves are not done.  if you look really closely at the thumb on these photos, you can see that i totally messed up the gusset.  so i reknit glove one... only to find that when i tied off the bind off, i had bound off waaay too tightly.  that was when i sat for half an hour and cried.  my mom suggested loosening the cast off edge by undoing it and redoing it... thank god it worked.  so now, on to glove three, which is actually glove two, and hopefully glove the last.... 

ever.

knitty, this is one pattern i will not be using again!

bella's "secret santa" scarf

in our house when a "secret santa" exchange calls for a handmade gift the first thing i think of is knitting.  my ten year old bella, apparently, is no exception.  when told that she needed to supply her fellow girl scout with a gift at the christmas parth, she first decided that she would knit a head band.  when she cast on too many stitches we called it a scarf.  

bella modeling her "secret santa" scarf

now, what i didn't know is that bella is only a fast knitter when she wants to be a fast knitter. this scarf, by the time she got around to knitting it, was to be given in a little under 48 hours. she knit, and knit, and knit, and knit (and watched a little spongebob on dvd) and then she knit some more.  after three hours on sunday nite, she only had two thirds of the scarf done.  

what's a mother to do?

i knit the rest of it for her.  

is that cheating?  maybe.  however, she decided on the yarn, cast on, knit like a whirling dervish, decided on the length, and bound off.  i would say that is close enough.  

didn't she do a good job (with a little help from mom!)?

pink and white self striping cotton

from sugar and cream

 detail of scarf

(the dark pink is the side she knit most of)