Installation by Jim Campbell at SFMOMA.

I’m furiously trying to finish this little baby jacket before the big baby shower next Saturday. I made the same jacket, from the pattern Easy Baby Cardigan, for another baby not too long ago. This time I’ve added the hood and it’s for a girl. I know it’s not the color we normally associate with baby girls but the expectant mother specifically requested that we all go easy on the pink. As it turned out, I happened to have a ball of my favorite sock yarn, Jitterbug, lying around, and that’s what I used.

This may very well be the last thing I ever knit – sadly. My fingers are stiff with arthritis and I’ve also got tennis elbow. Years of overuse from manic knitting and computer use along with advanced age, have created quite a bit of pain in my right hand and arm. I don’t think I’ll give it up altogether, but I’ll probably slow down significantly.

So what else shall I blog about?

This has become my default hat pattern and if you want to know the particulars, just contact me. I love figuring out new stripe configurations, in shades of gray of course. Although I must say, the weather here has been positively summer-like, but who’s complaining.

Yeah so I guess I had a lot of free time today, Christmas day, as many of us do, so I managed to finish a hat for a friend who doesn’t have one. And he’s bald! Normally this friend of mine wears only black but I just couldn’t bear to knit an all black hat even though it might have been faster. As it was I started this hat on Christmas Eve, in the evening, and finished it around 4pm today. Hats are fast, don’t you think?

Today I helped my little sister, Liz, felt her first slippers and I felt so proud. Honestly, I had so much fun that it revived my excitement in felting. Liz got it into her brain to make slippers for several members of her boyfriend’s family but I don’t think she realized what she had gotten herself into. The slippers are a little tricky and you do have to keep your eye on the pattern at all times. They’re not difficult per se, but they do require some short row shaping, etc. However I do think, for the first attempt, the slippers came out amazing.

Here are the next pair of slippers in progress:

Has anyone out there used Lamb’s Pride for felting? I’m a little worried about the mohair content.

In any case, felting is a very forgiving form of knitting art and hides a multitude of knitting flubs.

It’s also a lot of fun!

I finished another koolhaas this evening but there is not natural light and therefore no photos. You’ll just have to wait until tomorrow. In the interim I give you my latest sock knit from some lovely, stretchy Paton sock yarn I found at Michaels. Sleep well friends and see you tomorrow.