green_martha

So I was nice to the digicam and the digicam was nice to me, and thus, I have pictures to share !

The purple Lucioles mitts :


And the beginning of the Chaos Socks :

I'm working the cables according to my dice like in Knitty's Chaos sweater, though I have slightly modified it :
Roll a 1 or 2 : Slip next 2 sts to cable needle and hold to front of work, k2, k2 from cable needle.
Roll a 3 or 4 : Slip next 2 sts to cable needle and hold to back of work, k2, k2 from cable needle.
Roll a 5 or 6 : K2
I'm making little use of all the fancy dices I have in the house...
I'm about to start with the short row heels and am a bit scared. Although my mind has been working on this all night and made me dream of exactly how to work the short rows and wrap the thread. Hello mind, would you please turn off just a little bit now and then ?

But now that the flat is liveable again (i.e. clean, and all the Christmas stuff has been put away) I'm earnestly going back to sewing. I WILL finish this petticoat !

It feels strange to have had two days off, and to have so much less busy workdays. And now I actually have time and energy when I get home. I think I need to adjust back to normal life...
I also took advantage of the Home Geek being at home on vacation to let him do the cooking (in fact, he would not let me do it !) and concentrate on crafty things.

So I have :
- blocked the Lucioles mitts. I still need to take good pictures of them, and will wait for daylight to do so.
- finished sewing together and hemmed the mega-long bottom ruffle for petticoat #1. Now "all" I need to do is gathering the top part of the petticoat to test how it hangs and thus figure out how much of a train I have to include into middle ruffle.
- cast on and started knitting Tournesols, a bright yellow beta-pair of socks. On my new bamboo circular needles, using Knitty's magic cast-on for toe-up socks.
- discoverd a knitted Ravenclaw bag pattern that makes me want to learn fair isle.
- gone yarn hunting only to find otu Monoprix had resotcked on Rayure Double, only not in grey-brown. *pouts*
- enjoyed yet one more "hot chocolate on stick". Most genious Christmas prezzie EVAH. I'll share the recipe after I've made it myself.
Not necessarily in that order.

I completed my first mitt ! My first ever completed knitted garment with some shaping involved ! WOOt !