illicit diversions » finished objects http://www.illicitdiversions.org/blog what i'm doing when i'm supposed to be doing something else Thu, 15 Jul 2010 19:00:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 finished at long last! http://www.illicitdiversions.org/blog/2009/05/finished-at-long-last/ http://www.illicitdiversions.org/blog/2009/05/finished-at-long-last/#comments Sun, 10 May 2009 23:05:48 +0000 shallowwater http://www.illicitdiversions.org/blog/?p=28 racing stripe handwarmers
I’ve finally finished one of my knitting projects! it seems like it has taken me forever and a day, but the handwarmers I wanted to give mitchco for Christmas are finally completed! Actually, I finished them and mailed them off about a few weeks ago. But I hear they were well-received!

Instead of the stripes called for in the pattern, I decided to make these babies solid yellow, with a sporty red stripe across the back of the hand. I also made them extra-long in both directions for increased warmth. The first pair of these that I made came out nicely, but I would have liked them to cover a bit more of my fingers.

I haven’t actually gotten that much better at making the thumbs, but I have gotten better at knowing which stitches to pull together to get the holes to close up.

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