The first is a pair of the Daisy Stitch Hand Warmers from Purlbee. This is actually my second time knitting them, and I like to think that making the first set taught me a lot about knitting. I’ve gotten a bit better at managing the tension so the knit-3-together part isn’t quite so painfully difficult. I’m also changing up the pattern in that instead of doing stripes of different colors, they’re going to be yellow with one or two red stripes across the back of the hand, above the thumb hole! It looks really cool in my head. I also need to go read some thumb/finger patterns, because I’m not quite convinced I’m doing it right yet. There is a lot of post-knitting tightening things up in that area.

My second project is Anne Elliot Spencer by Canary Knits. It is an adorable little cropped shrug thing, the technical term for which is apparently a ‘spencer’. Who knew? I’m starting that in a the nasty cheap acrylic from Red Heart, as I feel like I’m going to do some serious fucking up before I get it right. Somehow, I feel like I shouldn’t use the nice yarn until I am confident in my ability to make the actual pattern. I did cave and pick up a beautiful orange yarn for my second go at the spencer. I have some amazing dinosaur buttons for Jo-Ann’s that I feel will really make it an amazing garment!

I also have a pretty bright pink that is just barely hot enough for me to want to wear. I want to make it into a super-hot-yet-somewhat-badass cardigan/shrug item, but I haven’t quite found the perfect pattern.