This is one of the parcels that will be opened today. I really liked the look of this particular picture though so I had to share.

My Moo Mini cards arrived last week. I learned about them through Craftboom about a month ago. It took me a little while but I finally came up with a good reason to order some ...
 
I’m starting to develop quite a collection of partial or unused balls of leftover yarn and often the label has gone missing. Right now I can remember what each ball was from and what it’s made of but I know that wont last. One day I will be looking through that box and find something, and maybe even remember buying it, but have no idea what it is or why I got it. Now I’ll have my own little labels to put on all my miscellaneous yarn so I’ll know what things are and how long I’ve had them.
 
 
As the mini card box says:
 
 
PS. I got some picture cards and some stickers too.

This is my possum yarn being swatched up for a pair of mittens. It’s so soft when it’s running through your fingers and has just a tiny bit of a halo to it once it’s knit up. It’s going to be lovely mittens.

It might seem funny to swatch for mittens. Even if my gauge is a bit off mittens are small enough that it might not matter too much. The thing is I’ve made this pattern up before. It was right when I started knitting and I just picked some needles I had - they may have even been the size called for in the pattern (US 7) - and started knitting.

You can probably see my first problem already. I realized just how much of a mistake this was when I was reading over the pattern yesterday and noticed that it calls for “3.25 mm (US 7)” - that’s a mistake in the pattern - US 7 is about 4.5 mm! My second problem was that I’d learned to knit from a book (and not very well) and it wasn’t until I was half way through the first mitten and showed it to my grandmother that I discovered I was knitting through the back loop. I don’t know if that effects gauge but it definitely changed the texture of my knitting. At any rate the mittens were huge - I wonder if Jane still has them?

I need a new pair of mittens for myself (my current pair have a whole in the thumb) and I really want them to fit (or at the very least to not fall off) so I’m swatching.