I finished the twined mittens I started back in February. I need to take a better picture so I can upload it to the pattern page. The technique was a lot of fun once I got the hang of it.
I made myself a hat:
It's the Star-Crossed Slouchy Beret that's so popular on Ravelry (13000+ projects - so viral I would have avoided it except I saw one in person and fell hard in love). I had to make some mods to get it to fit my head, mostly just adding stitches and then adjusting for the increases and decreases so the cables still worked. I love the colors in this yarn (Knit Picks Chroma in Hollyhock). Purple and grey may be my new grey and pink.
I've also caught up on a few dishcloths.
Zig Zag dishcloth by Faith Schmidt
Simple Lines by Chelsea Berkompas
Orbital Dishcloth by Stacey Winklepleck
And my showstopper:
Petticoat Dishcloth, by Kendra Nitta
This dishcloth is just a little crazy. You start at the outside edge and cast on 200+ stitches, knit a bit, and then on a separate needle cast on another ridiculous number of stitches and knit a bit and then join the two pieces together, cast on a third piece, knit, join, and finally knit down to the center. Were I designing this I would have started from the center, worked out, and then picked up the stiches for the second and third ruffles so everything was worked in one piece, but perhaps that isn't as simple or neat as it sounds in my head.
The yarn is Cotlin DK. I started this thing in April, all that ruffling in light yarn took this long to finally finish. As long as it took, and as frustrating as it was to try and join so many stitches on a 16" cable without twisting, it was really a lot of fun to knit. I can't even imagine using it as a dishcloth. Right now it's sitting on my bathroom counter collecting bobby pins and hair-ties, kind of a fiber-happy take on the those catch-all bathroom trays that I've noticed we're selling in the Domestics dept. recently.
In other news, it's officially footie pajama weather.
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