Well, I am back!

Late last year I fell in love with wool, yarn and generally all things that don’t mix the greatest with my lovely subtropical climate.

So how to keep my stash/collection from growing crazily out of control? I had my Ashford Knitter’s Loom, but really there is a limit to what I could make with that, so I decided to give knitting a try…

And omigosh i think I have created a monster.  So far I have been pretty good with finishing the things I start, but somehow the stash cupboard keeps getting more and more full…  But I also get to fill another cupboard with beautiful hand knitted things… win=win really…

I have a few projects I finished last year that I will update with over the next couple of updates, but for now, here is my first Finished Object of 2010:

My Peekaboo mittens  (ravelry link to the pattern)

They will be perfect when I am freezing my fingers, toes and butt off in Japan next month!

I knitted them in seed stitch instead of the stockinette the pattern calls for, and they are perfect for wearing over the top of the self-striping fingerless liners that Stacey is stitching for me (I promised I would knit her a pair of mittens if she made me some liners, a fair trade right? )

You can see a glimpse of the one finished liner in the pics:

My mittens are knitted in Malabrigo worsted, Azul Profundo colourway.  (I love love love Malabrigo!)

/squee!

For those that visit the site, I will be doing my posts in blue in the future to help differentiate between mine and stacey’s posts.  You can also find all of my posts (from January 2010 onwards in the ‘postings by jessica” category.

I will also be getting this site cleaned up and updated and looking great in the next couple days/weeks.  Stay tuned!