I’ve got FiddleHead Fever bad. These are definitely taking longer than the first pair, but then, I haven’t been working on them nonstop either. Right now I’m knitting the second lining, so I’m almost done. These are knit in Reynolds Whiskey, one of my most fav yarns. Not nearly as soft as the Ultra Alpaca Light, but they’re getting the same KSH lining, so it doesn’t even matter.
I need to find my next big all consuming project. I’ve had this red felted tweed cardigan number in the back of my brain since November, so maybe I’ll start that. I’m about over my small project mania!

“Hot Metal” Vesper Sock Yarn

There’s also a new Update over in My Shop, with tons of Vesper Sock Yarn, including two new colorways.

Enjoy!

Filed by Julia at 7:40 pm under FiddleHead Mittens,Get Your Yarn!!
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Finished! I love these! As soon as Adrian makes the pattern available, you must all make a pair. I test knit these for her in a commercially available yarn, Berrocco’s, Ultra Alpaca Light. Which is lovely, just like it’s heavier version, Ultra Alpaca, which I used to knit my Aftur Sweater, except it doesn’t come in as many colors, but we can hope!
I used Kidsilk Haze for the lining, held doubled, on US 3 needles, and people it is SO soft and SO fluffy, I want to knit a cocoon of it and hibernate until spring.

My favorite thing is the way it lays inside the mitten, a lovely peek of a perfect limey green.

Some more specs:

Pattern: Fiddlehead Mittens (of course!) by Adrian Bizilia of Hello Yarn.
Yarn: Berrocco’s Ultra Alpaca Light, The Main Color is 4281, the contrast colors are, beginning from the wrist, and working up, CC1 4240, CC2 4287, CC3 4288, CC4 4285, and CC5 4294.
Needles: US 3, (3.25mm) for both the outer mitten, and the lining.
Started: Thursday February 7th, as soon as I got home and ripped open the package of yarn and pattern Adrian sent!
Finished: Wednesday February 13th.

Love!, and I just picked up some more yarn for another pair!
PS- More photos on my Flickr page!

Filed by Julia at 12:52 am under FO!,FiddleHead Mittens
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It’s Monday, and here I am with my Chevron Love Hat pattern all ready for you to download. I know! Goal? Met.

This is the first serious pattern I’ve come up with that I’m sharing with all of you, I’ve tried to write it out in the best way I know. However, if there are any questions at all, or if you find any errors, or even have suggestions on how something might be explained more clearly, please do let me know!! Email me here- knitterlythings AT gmail DOT com

AND!! If you knit one of these, I would LOVE to see it! If you have a blog, email me with the link, if you don’t email me some photos, and I’ll start a flickr group for them all! I’m excited to see what you all come up with.

One more thing- This is the first time I’ve ever created a PDF file. I spent alot of time painstakingly formatting this thing in Word as a document file, I finally got it to look all pretty and “right” but then when I converted it to a PDF, alot got lost in the translation. Any suggestions? I’d love to know a better way.

ETA: 08.10.2009
This is no longer a free pattern. I’ve come to the very hard decision. There are too many people using it for their own gain, and I am not comfortable with that. If you have already downloaded this pattern in the past, please do enjoy it.

Filed by Julia at 6:30 pm under Chevron Love,Knitting
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Berrocco Ultra Alpaca Light. These Ultra Alpaca yarns are an absolute pleasure to knit with. Wanna know what I’m knitting with these? I’ll tell you. FiddleHead Mittens. Oh yes, Fans of Hello Yarn will recognize these as the beautiful mittens Adrian designed, and will soon be selling kits for them, kits with her hand dyed yarns.

So how is it I’m knitting already you ask? I volunteered to test knit them in a commercially available yarn, Ultra Alpaca Light. These are really alot of fun to knit, and have two design elements that I have not knit before. They have an I-cord cast on, it takes awhile to knit, sort of a two steps forward, one step back kind of a thing, but it’s easy, and the edge it creates is very pretty and simple. The second thing is that these mittens have a lining, which I haven’t knit the like of before. After the outer mitten is knit, you pick up from the cast on, and knit another mitten, to fit inside. I’m looking forward to that step alot.
While this first mitten dries, I’ve cast on for the second. The first mitten only took an evening! Except for the thumb, which I was too tired to start, and was sure I’d muck it up, so I knit that the next morning. Adrian designed them so that the front and the back is the same, so you’ll get a more even wear out of them, also makes them that much easier to knit.

I’ll have more details when I finish them, for now though, run over to Adrian’s and tell her how much you love them, and how much you need to knit them!
I’m working on the Chevron Love hat pattern, and hell or high water, will have it posted sometime Monday!!

Filed by Julia at 4:57 pm under FiddleHead Mittens,Knitting
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Vesper Sock Yarn in “Flamingo”, Superwash Merino.
The Shop is now updated!

If your wondering about the pattern for The Chevron Love Hat, I’m charting it now, and should have it posted by Monday!

Filed by Julia at 9:05 pm under Get Your Yarn!!
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So I was going to post more (and better) photos of the Chevron Love hat, but I’m gonna let Chuckie steal the spotlight instead. (I don’t call him “The Face” for nothin!) So if you’d like to see more photos, click on over to my Flickr page, and view the set.

Filed by Julia at 7:20 pm under Chevron Love,FO!,Meow Mixers
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Alright, first things first! You want to know who won right? I’ll tell you. Thanks to the help of a very handy random number generator, we have 2 winners!
Congrats to Seed Stitch Cheryl, and Fletch Knits Elizabeth! Ladies, I’ve just sent you emails, I’ll be needing your addresses, and some very nice fibery goodness will be finding it’s way to you asap!

Thanks everybody for playing, I’ll have to have more of these fun little contests in the future!

To those of you who guessed my Chevron project was a hat, your right on the money.

It didn’t take long at all, and as I suspected, I almost didn’t make a dent in my handspun stash, just because I used so many colors. Not to worry though, I’ve started another, using just four colors, this time in some leftover felted tweed. As soon as I can write out the crown decreases so that they make sense to everyone, and not just me, I’ll definitely be posting it. My gauge is about 6 St/inch, an the pattern is a multiple of 6 stitches, so it will be very easy to adjust gauge for yarn and head circumferance. I knit it up with a turned facing (easy stuff!), but it could just as easily be worked with ribbing instead.
I’m excited to share this, and see what you all come up with! Thanks to Brandt for modeling, my self portrait attempts were pretty funny!

Filed by Julia at 8:19 pm under Chevron Love
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