I have been under the thumb of a dumb virus....my creative output is severely restricted! I finally gave in and went to the doctors Friday so have begun my counter attack!
I have been moving slowly and when awake, have been working on these fingerless mitts. The white is handspun superwash and the variegated yarn is from the yarn shop I visited a few weeks ago!
This is a neat little addition to my knitting accessories; it is a magnetic pattern holder that also folds up and goes in the knitting bag more easily than the solid magnetic board I previously used.
It holds the pattern neatly and then folds up for easy travel-I had to rework the pattern for these mitts (a free pattern on Ravelry called Wintergreen) because the first attempt was way too big! After a bit of reworking, I worked pretty steadily on these all week and thoroughly enjoyed the two color knitting.........still.
Bill's project this week, besides mowing, was to empty our refrigerator to try and defrost it so that it would encourage a sensor to reset...........that didn't work but two good things resulted from the adventure any way; One was we now have a very clean and reorganized fridge,
And since he dug this out of storage to plug in and use to hold all the things from the freezer, he discovered a pile of treasures inside this from our move almost 5 years ago! Of all things, my scroll saw was in here along with a myriad of sheets and comforters that I had chalked up to the Bermuda Triangle of moving!!! After a good launder, they are perfectly good and usable still!
But this was another find-a pound of raw fleece that was in a crock (which is also cleaned and added to the decor in my family room!) inside the freezer-I rewashed the wool and am in the process of carding it! I do not remember what kind of wool it is, but it is soft and will give it a spin next week to see how it works up!
