Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Crafting On

The act of creating, in one form or another, preserves my sanity amongst the chaos of life. This explains why I always have more than one project going at a time as well as why my housework tends to fall behind. I enjoy seeing what others are working on and keeping calm with, too. What are you creating? What is keeping you going? Snap a picture or two, post it on your blog, on Instagram #craftingon and/or Flickr and then share it with the rest of us by leaving your link below.
crafting on

Where did my sunshine go? As you can see it was a gray storm cloud type of day.

I currently have a semi-last minute birthday gift for C on my needles. She has been asking me to knit her some fingerless gloves since I finished my Downton Abbey ones. I thought her birthday was the perfect time to grant her wish. I knew the perfect yarn to knit them with, too - the skein we dyed with Indian Amaranth last fall that C quickly claimed for herself. As you can see the pink mellowed out quite a bit from my previous photos but I actually like it even more this way.

p.s. I decided to make things simpler and just shorten the name of the link up to Crafting On. Keep Calm Craft On {crafting on} just felt too long and slightly complicated.

What are you working on? Happy creating!

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The pink is gorgeous, it's a very natural colour, all strawberries and cream. What a lovely pair of mitts!
What a gorgeous colour and love the pattern, will have to add it to my ones to make.
That yarn is such a lovely color! You are getting me excited about the natural dyeing for third grade. Do you have any books that were especially helpful to you?
4 replies · active 414 weeks ago
Oh yes. They are in with Baby F who is sleeping at the moment though so I'll get back to you ASAP on that ;)
Thanks! I look forward to it. :-)
Eeek! I forgot! I'm sorry. Tomorrow I will get them!
I am so sorry this took so long!! The 2 books we love are Wild Color and Harvesting Color
I love how that natural dye turned out - I love dying pink but have never tried this approach. You've inspired me!
Nice pattern! And I love the yarn! Wish I could find time to try dyeing some. I added the pattern to my Ravelry queue, I was just about to knit my 2 daughters some fingerless gloves so that's perfect. I'm curious as to why you used smaller needles than asked for - is it to make the mitts child size?
1 reply · active 417 weeks ago
Yes! My daughter has very small hands. I might try to sneakily try them on her though before I finish to make sure I am not making them too small.

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