Fuzzyfeet

This was my sister's Christmas present this year (lucky girl, two hand-knit Christmas presents in a row!). Fuzzyfeet, which I poured MUCH work into. I dyed the wool myself, using Fruit Punch koolaid. I then knit the slippers. I realized that I'd made a mistake in the heel turn of the first slipper, so I knit the first one twice. After all that they looked boring, so I picked up all the cast on stitches, and added about 8 rows of the yarn plus a purple varigated eyelash. Then I felted them (mostly) by hand, although I finished the felting in the washing machine. Phew!

Scarves and French Ticklers

Here's some Christmas goodies. You can see the scarves at the top of the pic. The little things at the bottom are "French Ticklers" - from knitty.com under the "Sex and the Knitty issue - check the archives. You can see what they're for there ;). I made them to give to my friends, along with the scarves.

Purple Poncho

Here is my poncho, don't mind me looking a little rough. Like I said, I have mono. In fact, I'm going back home Sunday and withdrawing from two of my classes at University for the semester. It's made using Yarn Harlot's pattern. It's on her sidebar. I made a few changes, namely I used a much thicker wool (it's Bernat Solo in "Plum") which is heavier than worsted, but I didn't think to cast on less stitches. Therefore once I had finished the third ball I went back, unpicked the collar, then worked my way up through alternating rows of eyelets and plain knitting (with decreases in the plain knitting). This made the collar the right shape and size. Also, I used as much fringing as she did but I think I'm going to have to again go painstakingly through all of that and redo it so that I only have one string in each, cause it looks a little strange and excessive right now. I think anyway. All in all a very fun project, and it broke the monotony of the days since I can no longer go to school or basically live life :P

Thrummed Mittens

Look are these finished mittens? I think they are! The first one required fixing because I had too much fleece in the first few thrummed rows, so I cut open the loops and pulled some out. But yay, they're done!

Pink and Purple Mary Janes

Here's one of the pair of slippers I finished this weekend, made of ping-pong wool in "pink power", and some anonymous acrylic in plum. They are cozy!