Two Real Finishes

 

In my update at the beginning of this month I wrote that my only achievement in the WIP category was two Frogs. Since then I have completed all the mitred squares and all the strips for one of the year long blankets. Although I have completed as much as I wanted to get done this year, they are not fully finished items as they still need to be sewn together to become blankets.

But I have just finished two items (or four as they come in pairs) within a day of each other, which is why they are appearing in the same post. Both these projects were started so that I could take them on my trip in October. I would still have made them but they would not have been on the needles at the same time.

First is a pair of socks that I started for September’s challenge. I cast them on at the beginning of September so that they would count for September’s challenge, expecting to finish them in October but I hardly picked them up when we were away and I decided not to rush and finish them when we returned. The pattern is My Cup of Tea which I had had downloaded a number of years ago. The yarn is from Round Mountain Fibers and was used in this project. I don’t usually contrast the toes and the socks sat for a week before I grafted them closed as I kept thinking I would redo them in the main colour. Also I don’t usually like socks where the pattern is worked on just half (usually front) of the sock but it works for this pattern.

 

The other project I finished was these fingerless mitts using leftover yarn from last year’s Advent, I used a glove pattern that I knew fit and added the lace pattern that I had used for the socks to the back of the hand. That is the lace pattern I had used for the Advent socks, not the socks featured in this post. 

 

I still have quite a bit of yarn left over so I am thinking of making a cowl to use it all up.

The interesting thing about these two projects is that I worked them two-at-a-time on a circular needle. This is not my favourite way of working a project but as they were both travel projects, I decided this would be an easier way of working them and not worry about dropping needles.