November round up

Here's baby O in one of my knitted cardigans (not looking too happy, hope it's not the cardigan!) with her maternal grandma, who's visiting from Germany until after Christmas.

It's the cardigan from Knitter's Almanac, always goes down well with babies and is knitted top down, nearly seamless.

I've finished my Christmas knitting!  I didn't quite make the November deadline, and finished the socks on 1st December. I ran out of yarn, despite knitting the heels and toes in contrast colour. That means there's a half knitted sock hidden somewhere, as there's no way I should have ran out of yarn, it's Stahl sock yarn with a good yardage. I had to use the remnants from the other Stahl socks for the final inches.  What a pain.

Gift #14
Sinfonie socks for Chris

Note the yarn shortage!  At least Chris doesn't wear socks and sandals.

The Acrylic Doll.
I took it into work to post, wrapped it in bubble wrap and loads of brown paper and wrapping tape, then remembered that I'd not taken a photo. 

Yes, that's an end poking out behind the doll.  I did all the stuffing and piecing together late on Tuesday night, after rather a lot of vodka (work evening out) and missed that end.  As I've mentioned before, this is for my niece and is a replacement of her stuffed doll, which is 13 years old and falling to bits (it was her big sister's doll).  The doll arrived on Saturday and she loves it, which is a relief as I had no idea what the original looked like.

The rest of November:

Misti Alpaca scarf, used one skein, free pattern here.

Two more chenille wash cloths, free pattern here.

Regia silk socks

The third Feza scarf

Wristers using some Joslyn's fiber farm wool and this pattern

More Wristers, this time with thumb and twisted stitches on the ribbing in Malabrigo

The colour is much richer, more like the photos in Polly's post - lovely stuff. It seems that there's a lot of other Stash knitters knitting Malabrigo fingerless gloves at the moment!

Finally another baby cardigan

From cashmerino2, in Debbie Bliss baby cashmerino.  Now that I know the baby wears my stuff...

Lots of little things, not many big things for November, and it's 3 days into December and I can't quite stop knitting small stuff! 

Comments

[Mary]

Well done on getting it all finished. Time to stop those small things and get your teeth into something bigger.

[Karen]

You had a very productive November! You can hardly tell where you changed yarn in the socks.

The doll is simply adorable!! You do pretty good finish work with vodka! lol Much better than I could I bet.

I have one skein of Misti Alpaca that has been sitting in my stash for years, so thanks for that link!

[Emily]

Hi there - met you in the I Knit Shop last Wednesday, I think. I thought your talk of knitting all in white for a baby was familiar - I already had your blog on my Newsgator blogroll.

I have alreadys tarted knitting Pomotamos fingerless gloves with one of the Earth toned potluck skeins of Cherry Tree Hill I bought, and find the colours and the yarn delightful. Hope they stay so after washing!

Was good to meet you,

Emily

[francoise]

Well done Dawn on finishing your Xmas knitting on time!... What are your plans now???

[Linda]

You are intimidatingly efficient, Dawn! I've dealt with Christmas knitting by not doing any, this year. The downside (only just apparent to silly me) is that means more Christmas shopping to be done.

[Holly Burnham]

I know you called the creamish baby creation a cardigan....but it looks to me as though you've knitted an entire jumpsuit in the picture with Grammie. What a lovely job....kudos to you.