It has occured to me that the items I’m knitting for the Dulaan project will not be warm enough for a Mongolian winter. Here in Sydney, the winter mornings we complain bitterly about rarely get colder than 4C. (35F) I cannot even comprehend cold weather of -40F.
However, I hope my hats and mittens will be useful anyway. Maybe Autumn wear.
I finished the first stripey hat and hope I have enough yarn for another. A great deal of this leftovers knitting is done with great hope that there is enough yarn to finish the items I start!
I don’t think there will be much knitting today. I’m heading into Em’s room to try to establish a clear path fromt he door to the bed. I’ve given up on the room looking like anything less than a bomb site.

Good Lord, where did the last few days go??
I did Canteen Duty at school for the first time ever on Monday 🙂
These kids musn’t get fed at home – as soon as the ball goes, they’re there, at the canteen, in line to get food. (Including my own kid, I might add!) Feeding time at the zoo is calmer 😉
So that was Monday, gone and over!
But I’ve been knitting – but not on Satin. I started Satin on the weekend, did the ribbing on the back, then put it aside and haven’t touched it since.
I’ve been Dulaan-ing 🙂
Little mittens!

Pink superwash with some pink fluff on the edges. Half a ball from the leftovers box. I guesstimated the size, knit them up with the assistance of Ann Budd’s Handy Book of Patterns, and had about a foot of yarn left. I spent the last few rows of the second mitten sweating on whether I would have enough yarn to finish them.
Pink Hat!

Leftover Lambs Pride Bulky. Jill sent me some to make some felted slippers for Em ages ago. The slippers didn’t work out, but Em likes the hat. Tough luck, kidlet, a poor, cold small child will be wearing it 🙂
I really liked knitting with the LP though.
And I did a hat from the leftover Woolease from DH’s hat last week.
I found three half balls left from a hat I knit DH last year. I’m going to knit a stripey hat, using the jogless stripes techniaue from the six sox stashbuster socks. Using up some leftovers feels good.
Em’s poncho remains unseamed and unfringed. I’m enjoying little things right now. Instant gratification 🙂

Twinkie is fine, I am a worrywart 🙂
Apparently it is normal, it has something to do with a combination of things. Her rubbing her chin on things (claiming them as hers!), moulting, and her licking herself on the chin – quite a sight to see 🙂
In knitting news, Lacy Poncho is blocking as we speak. It should have been finished on Friday, but when I sat down to do the last 2 pattern repeats, I discovered that 5 pattern repeats back, I had missed a plain knit row, which turned the pattern around. Rip, rip, rip, rip. But it is now done.
And Satin is already cast on. I have also been going through my leftovers box, decided what I can make for the Dulann project.
Who ever knew I had so many leftovers? Complete balls! And bundles of little balls too small to do anything with. Why do I keep them?
The mysteries of the universe, indeed 🙂

Another quick entry today.
I have been trying to teach Emily to knit since she was about 6 or so. As I said yesterday, she’ll be 12 in a few weeks, and the going hasn’t always been good. She wants to knit, she just can’t seem to get the hang of it, and wasn’t enjoying it.
Whilst surfing the web the other day, I was reading bits about continental knitting. I knit English, always have, and doubt that I could knit any other way. When I started thinking about it, Emily can’t hold the yarn in her right hand, twisted around her little finger the way I do. She kept saying “It doesn’t feel right, I can’t do it” BTW, she is righthanded.
It suddenly occurred to me that maybe I should show her how to knit continental.
Talk about a Eureka moment. Her face lit up and she said “That’s so much better!”
Then she knit five rows on her cozy for her most precious possession, her mobile phone 😉
We’re taking Twink to the vet this morning. When I was taking photos yesterday, I was laying on the floor in front of her, which is a different perspective than usual. When I was taking the photos, I noticed a “lump” under her chin. This is new, and I’m a little concerned, so we’re off to the vet.

It doesn’t seem to bother her, but I’m a worrywart. 🙂

Lots of wandering thoughts in my head today 🙂
The Lacy poncho is flying off the needles. I’ve finished the first rectangle and am halfway through the second. This is a great pattern. Keep in mind that I downsized it a bit, too.

Doesn’t look like much, does it? I did knit a swatch and blocked it, and it should block out just fine.
So now of course my thoughts are turning to – what next?
I *think* I might do “Satin” from Jo Sharp Create A Knit 1.

It’s very easy, a lot of plain stockinette, but I’ve had the yarn stashed for a while, so I think it’ll be that, unless something else jumps up and bites me in the next few days.
Emily’s birthday is coming up in a couple of weeks, so I asked her what she’d like for her birthday. All she asked for was a pink dance bag.
What happened to my acquisitive toy-hungry baby?? I asked her if there was anything else she wanted. It took her a while to come up with anything, but she’s asked for some jewellery. She’s frangipani mad, so I got her some frangipani earrings, and will look about for something else, but I’m in a bit of shock I think. Where is my baby?? She’s turning 12, so it was bound to happen sooner or later, but I don’t think I’m ready for this!
Twinks is ready for anything 🙂