Knitting Update

I thought this blog was a bit lacking in knitting so here's an update on what I've been working on recently.

I've almost finished rabbit no. 2, who is a ballerina. She just needs a skirt and a face. I'm not sure whether I want to buy a large quanitity of netting just to make one rabbit skirt. Maybe I'll knit her a friend.

She hasn't got a face yet. I don't feel like I can do the face until she's properly dressed.

I've also been knitting a cushion cover as a Christmas present for a friend, who doesn't read this blog (I think).

It's from a pattern that was in Knitting Today, the new magazine. I'm a bit irritated with it at the moment because the pattern is fairly dull and because of this I got distracted and moved one of the stripes one stitch to the right when I was in the Forth on Tuesday. I can't blame anyone else for this because I was sitting by myself when I did it, before anyone else arrived. I only noticed last night and had to pull out a 3rd of what I'd knitted. Grrr....!

I'm also working on this glove, which is from a pattern in Odham's knitting encyclopedia.

I already knitted one pair for the secret swap parcel I sent to Snaterkat. The pattern uses straight needles, but it is a pain in the rear end to have to sew up all those little seams, especially because it has to be done as you're going along. I decided to knit it in the round instead (on some old size 10 DPNs that used to belong to my grandma and probably date from the same time as the pattern book). So far it's going quite well.

I'm sorry to say that I still haven't got round to finishing Rufflette (picot cast off of about 400 sts on circulars - my personal nightmare) or the baby alpaca scarf I started a while ago. I can't actually remember the pattern I was using for the scarf so I'm going to have to have a dig around on the internet and try and find where it came from.

I'm meant to be knitting more Christmas hats for school and I've also got a few Christmas present projects waiting in the wings. So many things to knit, so little time....