Black Sheep

Things to do

September 22nd, 2004

I don’t have much to post on regarding current knitting projects. Still waiting for denises. Also waiting for my den-m-nit. I may actually get both today. In the meantime I’ve been working on the widow’s shawl. I’ve made some good progress. I have a truckload of this alpaca yarn and will have lots left when I’m done with the shawl. I’ve decided that I need some nice cozy footies (toe-warmers) and wrist warmers (fingerless gloves). It is f-ing cold in my building. It’s in the upper eighties outside but in my buidling, in my office, it’s in the sixties. My feet are cold. My hands are even colder. In fact, I am having trouble typing, they’re so cold. It sucks beyond belief. If they could get the damn temperature thing working right in this library it would be a miracle. Practically the whole summer we were without A/C and we died of heat in here. Now that it’s fixed, it’s too damn cold. ugh.

Well enough of my bitching.

I’ve got some nice alpaca wool that I am going to use to cozy those tootsies up. I’ve been searching the web for exactly the perfect thing. I know exactly what I want. I want some foot covers. They need to cover just enough of my foot so I can wear my shoes without any of the sock peeking through. I am wearing some right now that I got from the Gap. Only they don’t keep my feet warm. After searching high and low, I found a web page that had an old, vintage pattern that someone posted. This pattern is awesome. I mean, it looks like it has been taped together. And it’s exactly what i want. I guess these were popular fifty years ago . Check it out (note: clicking on the image will take you to the original site):

Here is a cropped image of the “Footlets”:

Fun! They will be perfect with my fingering weight alpaca yarn. I can’t wait to wear them already!

The librarians here joke about having to wear those fingerless gloves, also known as wrist warmers. I’m going to use my yarn to knit some of those, too! Maybe I’ll knit some for my secret pal at Christmas time. Patterns for wrist warmers are much easier to come by. I found a cute one at Knitty. And there are lots on the knitlist pattern exchange web page. The jury’s still out on which pattern I will use. If any of you have any ideas on good patterns that you have tried and like, let me know!

As I mentioned above, Widow’s Shawl is coming along. If I get a chance tonight, I will post a photo. I’m not super excited about it because I really wanted a lacy shawl. But it has been a very, very easy knit. This yarn is really difficult to knit with so I’m glad I’m not doing lace with it. It is too frustrating.

So I have a pretty good knitting to-do list to keep me busy for awhile.
1. the little denim messenger bag from Rowan 35
2. The bertie bag (I ordered the pattern for this last weekend and got it yesterday)
3. audrey
4. Something with my rose Softig yarn
5. Finish widow’s shawl
6. little footlets
7. wrist warmers
8. Scarf from my new mexico golden yarn

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