Crazy Gloves with scrappy yarn

Worsted weight yarn. CO size 8 needles, move down to size 7 after cuff.


Cast on 36 st work flat for 1 rows. K2, p2 ribbing. Join in the round and continue k2, p2 ribbing till cuff is 2 1/4" long. Move to smaller needles.
Decrease to 34 st and continue in sst st for 3 rounds.
Thumb opening: K34, do not join. Turn and work back and forth in st st for 1/1/2", end

on WS. Next round join and work around in st st for 1 1/4".
At knuckles knit back side 19 st with larger needle and slip in waste yarn. This is for mitten top later.
1st finger: 12st total ( 6st from front and 6st from back) St st 5 rounds. K1, p1 2 rounds and CO.
2nd finger: 10st total (5st from front and 5st from back) St st 5 rounds. K1, p1 2 rounds and CO.
3rd finger: 10st total (5st from front and 5st from back) St st 5 rounds. K1, p1 2 rounds and CO.
4th finger: 8st total (remaining st) St st 5 rounds. K1, p1 2 rounds and CO.
Thumb: Cast on 3 st to close bottom of thumb. Cast on 15st. 18st total.
Work until hits joint: for next 2 rounds k6, k1, p1 for 6 st, k6.
Knit 6, CO 6st & knit to end of round.
On seperate needle cast on 6st. Work flat k1,p1 for 3 rows.
Joint this new piece to remaining thumb stitches on glove to cover gap. Work in round til desired lenght. Decrease and CO.


Mitten top: Cast on 21 st. K1,p1, continue knitting the 19st marked with waste yarn on the back of the hand; join to work in the round. 40st for mitten top.
Continue rib for 4 rows and knit remaining st on each of 4 rows. Knit to desired length (about 2 1/4") before decreasing for top of mitten.
Decrease round: k1, ssk, k to 3 st before marker(markers at halfway point 20st & 20 st), k2tog, k1. Slip marker and k1, ssk, k to 3 st before marker, k2tog, k1.
Next round: knit.
Knit to desired length (1 3/4") and do a kitchner cast off.

Happy Holidays

I hope this reaches most everybody I would have sent it to by snail mail. I took a step back this year from all the holiday hub-bub and I am just getting to wishing everyone a Happy Holiday.

Happy New Year, hope you had a great Christmas. The girls and I had a great Christmas here in Michigan, on Christmas day the girls waited til I was home from work to celebrate Christmas and we went to my parents after to continue celebrating by opening more presents, eating a marvelous meal and hanging with the family via Skype and in person.

Zoe has had an eventful year in 2009, she is a Junior in high school and active with Marching band in the colorguard and Winterguard in the winter. She got her drivers license this past November, she is an excellent driver. We are now a two driver family with one car, not so fun. She is thinking about college and making decisions about her future.

Helen is an 8th grader at the middle school she has stopped competitive gymnastics and has taken up Krav Maga. She has grown up quickly during the last year, she has gotten braces & contacts. She becomes more of a teenager everyday.

Lily is a 5th grader at the upper elementary school. She is becoming an amazing young lady and learning she likes things she hated in the past, like reading. She is now the competitive gymnast in the family. She missed her first meet in December because she had strep, I cannot wait to see her compete in the January meet.

Sofia, yes we have another girl. A beagle who the girls dearly love. I cannot imagine life without her. She came to us in August, she was not a good hunting dog and needed a good home to be a house dog. We have taken her to obedience school so the people could learn how to behave.

I am still working the 911 job, yeah! I am knitting and reading on my kindle when I am not being the mom.

Send this on to anyone I missed.......I wish you a fantastic 2010.

Beth

uh oh!!

My only healthy Achilles is my left one, until yesterday. Having torn the right one two times I KNOW what it feels like to tear one. My right one doesn't hurt but it feels funny. There is a little bump in it, maybe I just have a little tear. I decided long ago to just keep doing whatever I wanted to do and if the left one tears, it tears and I will consider the foot rebuilding surgery then. I don't want to think about surgery, crutches or casts, I hope it doesn't really tear.

Sofia

We got a dog. She is a beagle and she loves people. The people at my house love her too. It is really exciting to have our first dog but I am exhausted from working so much. Thank goodness I took tomorrow off work, Helen and Lily are getting their schedules and packets. I love back to school.

Maybe it is time for a dog

We have been wanting a dog at our house for a couple of years. We have been talking about it for the last 6 months. We have an opportunity to get a great dog now. I had a list of concerns and they are rapidly becoming non-concerns. This is something that all 4 of us want equally, maybe not equally; the kids really, really, really want a dog. The benefits seem to outweigh the concerns, maybe it is time to do it.

I did a gauge swatch for the first time yesterday, yeah me!!! I really had to do it for my Olive Branch Hoodie and I needed to go down a size in needles.

All my kids will be home tonight, until Zoe goes to Ludington over Labor Day weekend. I am so glad they have friends with places to go up north. I remember wanting to be one of the people to go up north when I was a kid, it was not fun to be the one family who always stayed home. I know the reasons we didn't have a place up north now, but as a kid that didn't matter and still doeesn't to my kids either.

Today is day 3 of a 10 day stretch at work. Gotta love OT and comp, it is also a 12 hour day. I am grateful for the time I spend at home after spending so much time at work.

Calm before the storm....

I feel like it is the calm before the storm. The storm of school starting. Marching Band has started in full swing, camp is this week and next week will be all afternoon practice. We have picked up the "packets" for two of the schools and emergency cards are filled out. Helen is trying to decide what afterschool activities she wants to be involved in this year. Lily is awaiting going to the new school to find out about EVERYTHING. She says it is not fair that her sisters get to get packets and she doesn't. I think all three of them are excited to start school. Now they need to start going to be earlier so they can get up at the crack o'dawn.
I purchased new yarn yesterday to start my Olive Branch Hoodie http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/olive-branch-yoga-hoodie. I need to finish at least one project before I start the Olive Branch Hoodie. I am excited for this partially because the yarn is heavy worsted and much larger than I have been knitting with on my mitten and Lily's slippers. I have been trying to finish the 2nd slipper for Lily. I noticed as I was halfway done with the side that I was knitting in stockinette not garter. Ugghhh!!!! I am not going back to change it. The two slippers will just have different stitches, it just shows it was made with love.
I have started my christmas knitting and it is going well.
I have finished the cuff of my Anemoi Mittens for me on the second mitten, yeah me. I really like the colorwork and I am chooseing to start more projects that are similiar.
I downloaded the Magic Catalogue from Project Gutenburg, WOW, so many free books that I can now download to the Kindle. I need to be doing more free and less store bought books on it. I love reading on the Kindle and will choose it over a paper book when I can. I have been rereading the Harry Potter series before bed but I won't carry it around like I do with the Kindle.
It will be a busy next few weeks as I am working just about everyday for the next couple of weeks. I will enjoy the OT and comp time while I can get it.

What to do???

I am sometimes faced with the idea that I have an hour of time to do something. Do I do something around the house like empty the dishwasher, work on the kid's school scrapbooks, read or knit? Sometimes I just get involved in the time suck called the computer. I am faced with that idea now and just want to lay around and do nothing. I finished one of my Anemoi Mittens for me and need to start the second but I also want to reread the Harry Potter series unfortunately not on Kindle :-(. I am so not working on the school memory books, the dishwasher is unloaded(thank you kids), dinner is decided(must eat leftovers) so I think the knitting will win out, especially since I have new projects just waiting for me to start. Thanks to Sandy for the pictures of the mitten.