New Design

So, I have this amazing shocking pink wool I bought at Romni in Toronto. If you knit and you want to travel, Romni is a destination to make you chose to visit Toronto. No lie.

I find this pink quite inspiring. Good pinks and good purples are hard to capture in a picture.

So I was making away and today I had a breakthrough. This happens on weekdays when I should be at work but am not. (And not sick, because that is never a recipe for productivity.) So today I had a driving test in the middle of the day and had the day off. I passed!

Then I designed these....

I like them. There are things I would change, but I'll knit the second and perhaps do another pair with changes. 

Maybe I will write these up as a pattern? I'll be umemployed soon so you might get a lot of productivity from me then!!! 

One, Two, Three, Four....

I HAVE SOLD SOMETHING! Its amazing!

These mittens have been a hit (and they're a lot easier than the ones I was doing before) and I've managed to sell two already and then had some people enquire about a few more!

Here are the green ones. You can see the thumbs have changed and I'm not overjoyed about that but I think it looks better than having a second colour added on!

The first pair I sold were these amazing Alpaca ones in a hot pink that I'm in love with. I bought the wool at Romni in Toronto and that store is a cave labyrinth of amazing-ness. These were from the Dungeon of Sales in the basement! I removed one repeat of the pattern at the bottom to ensure I had enough left for the thumbs and I did! (Just!)

The pink ones were sold to a friend from work and we are a team of 3, so naturally my other colleague wanted a pair too. This purple is from English wool company Wendy and its' their Bliss line and its really soft (and cheap, woot woot!). I think its my new favourite standard yarn. Just hope they come out with even more colours. You can kinda see the flecks of pinky purple with bluey purple in this colourway.