knitting kitchen

Here’s the scene: camping on Mount Washington in December… sitting too close to the fire, you don’t realize that the burning smell may be your clothing…

Here’s a close-up of the damage

At the time, I told M that I’d prefer to knit him an entirely new sweater rather than repair the damage. This is what happened next:

Sigvaldi in Lopi
But then I felt bad for the toasted sweater and cut the bottom off it. I didn’t have any of the white or black yarn left and M made the decision that it wasn’t worth the time and money to buy more yarn just to recreate the pattern.

I cut the yarn right above the burned part, unraveled the sweater and picked up the stitches. Then I knit downward. It doesn’t have the black and white pattern on the bottom, but it’s okay.

Here’s a little bit of my holiday knitting:

Jessye in Halcyon by Lisa Lloyd

Olivia in Amanda by Lisa Lloyd

some mittens (I made three pairs of thrummed mittens and one pair of two color mittens) and a bunch of other things

More next time…