Enjoyed reading through all the patterns in the new Knitty Fall 2011 issue last weekend - such a wonderful publication.

For me this time the highlight wasn't a garment but a trail of interesting and inspiring links that started with the awesome Double heelix by Jeny Staiman
I progressed to her blog: Curious Knitter (which has many fascinating ideas), and ended up returning to my desire to make my crochet mobius mitts into a proper knitted version (instead of the less-awesome knit flat and then twist version.

Other patterns I liked the look of from the new Knitty were Dragon Wing and Dunes

Hmm finally cast off my Cosette Wrap last night, and now need to decide how to go about fixing the dye problem. My dyeing experiment turned out lovely (imo), but also turns everything it touches lovely (ie bright blue)

Flip top mitts featuring Matt Smith’s bowtie and favourite fez. This pattern idea to me in a flash and it made me laugh, so I just had to write it up - I hope you laugh too! Mitts flip towards front of hand & fasten with buttons so as not to obscure bowtie ^_^ enjoy!

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Materials:
3.5mm circ + spare needle/waste yarn
2 stitch markers
2 buttons

Skills required
Being comfortable working on circular needle (or dpns)
knit
purl
inc – knit into front and back of stitch to increase
ssk – slip, slip, knit
k2tog – knit two sts together

Despite not feeling any different, I think my spinning is getting a bit neater. I finished spinning this lovely Medley top from natchwoolie the other day. The reason I loved the look of this fleece was the question of how to combine the light and medium brown colours
In the end I went with the majority of each colour plied with itself and then a middle section where the colours are plied together
Not sure what this will become yet - unsure what this mingled brown colour would be best for - any thoughts?

Have been meaning to show these for a little while now, but I was too busy wearing them :)
This is my second pair of knitted socks, and are less of a success than the ones I knitted for mum, as I didn't put in the care or concentration (many holes in my short rows), but I'm liking having a pair of my own.

I've just been adding a few things to my Mobius Mitts pattern, including the video tutorials from my last post.

Crochet has a front and a back side. Because Mobius Mitts are worked as a mobius loop, the side showing changes at the centre point (see above).
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This post is being revised, please return in a day or two, many apologies for any delay in your project ~ 2 Oct 2011

Such a lovely sunny wintery day today!

Discounted sample mitts worked as a test for my updated Ghost Train Gloves pattern.

Feel free to use chart for your own tubey but would appreciate a linky - and make sure you note the troubles I had -> I solved the puffyness issue by hand-stitching in some lines of back stitch to pull ribbing together in that section and now seems ok. If I did it again I might decrease just under the bust to account for this before starting the stranded section.

Here's a cute little gift whipped up for a special friend getting married. Was a bit late because I got sick just before the wedding but I think she likes them :)

Pattern:
Owlings by Kerrie James (rav link)

I kind of just made up the thumb because I was knitting on circs and the pattern was for dpns and I didn't feel like translating across
I ended up knitting two pairs because the first one I did was too small (so I've kept those for myself and they're keeping me warm in the mornings)