jaina

Today I mailed off all of my charity knitting. I have now used up all the wool leftovers in the house YAY! Final Dulaan count was six hats, three pairs of mittens, and two pairs of socks, plus another hat to a different project. I am pleased! And I have more room in my yarn box again, which is good, cause I've got friends and relatives who have babies arriving, and YAY ALSO for knitting baby things. (I am about to pay a virtual visit to KnitPicks.)

	Double-knit hat for Represent! This was the first hat I made for the Dulaan project (from this pattern), except I made it out of Wool-Ease before I quite understood that Mongolian temperatures necessitate 100% wool. So when Steph the Yarn Harlot added a hat-donation component to her Represent project, I figured this hat would be perfect for that.
	Dulaan toddler socks I made these, and the mittens below, out of the leftovers from Nicholas Edward's big-boy Jayne hat (superwash worsted wool). They're the mini basketweave toddler socks pattern and I adore them. So fast to knit!
	Dulaan toddler mittens Three slightly different pairs of tiny mittens, made from more Jayne leftovers. The first (red) pair I made straight from the Dulaan easy-on kid mittens pattern. For the second (yellow), I changed thumb methods (to the one where you knit onto a bit of scrap yarn, then come back and pick up the stitches later and knit the thumb in the round, I have no idea what that's called). For the third (orange) pair, I used the dimensions of the easy-on pattern, but followed the knitty Mitten 101 guidelines for ambidextrous mitts. The thumb-tips are red cause I ran out of yarn. I think they look cute.
	Six whole Dulaan hats! The final Dulaan hat tally was six. They're all the Half-Assed Hat pattern, which I think should really be renamed since the hats are very nice and sturdy, not half-assed in the slightest. With the exception of the darker yarn in the pink hats, it's all leftovers from previous projects. I have now used up ALL of my leftover wool! Woo! Now for that acrylic scrap afghan...
	Mason-Dixon dishcloth Yes, I have the dishcloth fever. And I don't even use dishcloths. Like, ever. But I am displeased with this. I very much like the hexagon, which was why I knit it in the first place, but I hate how the yarn (Sugar and Cream) knit up. It should be pretty stripes, not all this ugly pooling. O knowledgable ones, is there a way to fix that? Starting at a different place in the yarn, or something?