Wee Bit o’ Progress

I haven’t been doing much in the knitting world since my wrists have been hurting since the last week of December.  I really overdid myself knitting for 8+ hours a day for almost two weeks in preparation for Christmas.  Thankfully, I was able to get all the presents for my family completed, except for the buttons on one, and a couple presents for my friends.  I still have a couple presents to make which will hopefully be ready by late February.  I should start making presents sooner.  -_-

A couple friends of mine asked me to make a few knitted items over the course of the last month, a child’s sweater and one to two pairs of gloves.  I started the sweater a couple days ago now and have made good progress.  The yoke is done and the body is started.  It will be the cutest little girl’s sweater.  I love it so far.  It will be a top-down raglan sweater with wide pink and purple stripes.  Since the purple is multicolored it will have many mini light and dark purple stripes within the larger purple stripe.  It’s a bit hard to explain, but it looks adorable.  I plan to finish it by the first week in February so she will have some time to wear it before it gets too warm.

I took a few pictures of the presents as well as the sweater.  Enjoy!  I’ll post an update soon as I make more progress.

Child Sweater Progress

Sister's Legwarmers

Link Gloves

They’re done!  I made a pair of Link Gloves for my friend Stephanie for Christmas last year.  The pattern was inspired by Link’s gauntlets from Ocarina of Time and designed by Emily Hastings.  Original Pattern can be found here: http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/links-gauntlets.

I followed the pattern for most of the glove with the exception of the triforce design.  I made the gloves with the triforce one hand as a tribute to the triforce being on Link’s left hand since he is left handed but changed the hand since Stephanie is right handed.

I am very happy with the way they turned out.  At first I was worried the two colors of brown wouldn’t match well, but my fears were in vain.  The two colors matched perfectly and added the depth and contrast for which I was hoping.  I might make a pair for a few other friends as well myself in the future.  I would change the color scheme a bit for mine, but that’s for a latter post.