Merry Christmas

I made these for my friend Rita...I can't show them on my blog in case she sees them there. My first pair of fetching and what an easy and delightful pattern! I added an extra row of cables around the fingers and cast off using a 2 stitch eye cord and decreased the purl stitch on the edge to make it a firmer fit. It works they look neat. I do like my mitts to come down to my knuckles!

Oh and I received the most amazing package from my mitt swap partner Jodi today...I mean REALLY amazing...I am just about to blog about it in amongst some other photos. What a lucky me!!

Lame!

So, I got my package from Keisha ages ago, and have been loving my mitts!! I've also eaten up some of the treats she sent me, but kept the packaging to photograph... I *just* finished 9 finals in the course of a week and a half, so I was kinda busy up until now. Had a terrible fiasco at the airport yesterday trying to get back home. And what do I do? I forget to take a picture (not to mention the camera itself) when I was at my apartment back at school. *sigh* I promise to get a pic up of my beautiful package and goodies (I love the stitch markers, they are so creative and pretty!) when I get back, but that won't be until January! In the meantime, I just have to tell Keisha how wonderful and well received her gift was. :o)

Treats in the mail!

Hi folks! Blogger is being super slow right now,so here are a few pictures of the treats I received from Ami of SourCherries. For more, see this post on my blog.



Thanks, Keri, for hosting such a fun swap -- this was my very first one, and I will certainly participate again. I'll post more mitts soon...

Hi! and New Poll - Swap?

Hi All -

This is Keri your friendly neighborhood knitalong hostess and I wanted to take a moment and say HI! to all our new members! I am just amazed at the fun and creativity this group has and all the gorgeous mitts you are churning out! I am so inspired - my todo list has grown a mile long! Everytime I see a new FO I say "oooh! I need to make that too!"

Anyhow - I've had some people approach me off list and let me know that they are having so much fun here that they would love to have a fingerless mitt swap. The idea of the swap is that you would be paired up with a partner and make a set of mitts for them and they would make a set of mitts for you and you would send them off by the end of November in a package with other fun fall-themed goodies and treats.

Right now I'm just gauging interest so I set up a cool new google poll in the sidebar under the welcome message. Please take a second and click yes, no or maybe to let me know what you think and if you would be interested. If there is enough interest I will coordinate it from my end and ask people who were interested to contact me to sign-up.

Now I want to be clear that you are in NO WAY obligated to join the swap just because you are a member of the knitalong. This would be a completely optional thing and it is totally up to you!

Happy Voting!
Keri