It's raining, and I'm feeling a little melancholy, though really, you'll think I shouldn't be once you see the pictures I'm about to post. I've been knitting for Dulaan. There's something very addictive about knitting for Dulaan . . . I mean, it's fulfilling for all the obvious reasons, but I think on some level it might also be liberating to be making things that I know I won't have to deal with storing or finding homes for. I can make almost anything I want to, and somebody will find a use for it.
This is Tippy. He belongs to my roommate for the summer, Aud, and when she brought him into my room to say hi, I made him model the latest Dulaan knits. The hat is Knitty's Peruvian. I made it with the leftover yarn from the mittens below, and between these two projects I polished off the yarn I got from that particular Goodwill sweater. (I still have the sleeves sitting around, but they're pretty worn out, so I may not unravel them.)
The pattern is absolutely adorable. I only put one 'boing' on each corner, because I was nearly out of yarn, but the hat is so small that it works. I'm planning on making this hat for myself at some point, because I need more whimsical hats, and when I do, I'll do it with more boings.
The socks are made out of yarn from the Sweater That Would Not Die. Seriously--this was another Goodwill sweater that I unraveled. I made a toddler sweater out of it, and then a hat, and then a pair of mittens, and then another hat, and another pair of mittens. Every time I think, "Well, that's the end of that yarn!" I find another little ball kicking around. It's lovely, very soft yarn, mostly wool with a bit of angora rabbit and nylon, but I'm kind of tired of it, and the angora makes my eyes itch. I think these socks finally used up the last little bit of it, though, just in time for me to start in on the Super Green Sweater.
I finish the grown-up sized cabled mittens, and discovered that they're pretty small for grown-up sized mittens. I have pretty small hands, and they're even a little too small in the palm for me. I hope they'll fit someone in Mongolia!
A detail shot, not because you can't see the cables perfectly well in the last picture, but because I have enough photographer in me to want to post something more visually interesting than straight, flat pictures of mittens.
