Two Finished Items

 I have finished two of the too many WIPs that I wrote about last time. One is the shawl that was blocking and the other is the fingerless mitts.

My plan for this year was to use stash from oldest to newest as much as possible and I did start (and finish) a top earlier this year with my oldest yarn. Then there was a hiatus in chronological use as I was traveling.

Next up was a single skein of fingering weight gradient yarn purchased at Vista Fiber Fiesta in 2015. This came pre-wound in a ball but last year I had reskeined and soaked it to get rid of the crinkles. This gave me the opportunity to see how lovely it was and renewed my interest in the yarn. Last year I crocheted a shawlette that I love so I looked on the designer's website for another pattern to use with the gradient. I am once again happy with the result. I ran out of yarn a few inches from the end but was able to use some black yarn to finish and no one can tell.

 

 

The other finished project, the fingerless mitts, used leftover yarn - technically yarn I didn't have to use - I have all those scrappy blankets after all. Earlier this year I made some lace socks and liked the pattern so much I decided to make it again as mitts. I used a simple pattern as the basis and cast on the correct number of stitches to work the pattern on half the hand. Photos before and after blocking.