Cute Knitting

Thumb Repair

For some reason most of the men in my life enjoy giving me ratty old knitted items to repair. I don't knit socks for DH and his friends anymore but they still produce various pairs of damaged

mittens and gloves. The pop-up mittens today weren't even handknit but DH asked me to fix the thumb. He has recently started using trekking poles for his hiking and backpacking which caused the hole.

The very first thing I do is handwash the item in question. These mittens have what looks like wood stain on them which didn't go away. Then I estimated on the gauge and needle size and chose some Elann Sock it to Me yarn and size 2 (US) dpns. I like using a yarn with a bit of nylon for this purpose to help the repairs last longer.

I cut off the tip of the thumb and ripped back to a point where the yarn was no longer thin. I put the sts on the needles and started knitting. To determine how long to make the thumb, normally I'd count the rows but my gauge was a bit finer so I added a few rows. The original mitten thumb looked like it was just a few rows of K2TOG for the thumb tip decreases so that is what I did as well.

I'm not sure if this will be a recurring problem but if it is the next time I repair them I might add some duplicate stitch to the area that is prone to holes to help the thumb last longer.

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Plane Crochet, Blythe dresses made in the sky.

My morning moan/My UK shock!

Before I get to the Flight Blythe Crochet, I need to show this..........

Say this.......

We came to Uk, to get away from the snow, to wake up to this!!!!

My father-in law in the neighbouring field with his collection of dog's
Enjoying the hideous snow.

For art I like it, for daily living I detest it.

Seeing it's England, No grit no gritter no budget!

We are officially stuck, thank god for the British over use of 4x4,
We are actually in the country side
So my family actually rate having them;-)

Thank goodness.

Yesterdays flight, SAS Sweden to England

Two hooks,5 and 8 (Always prepared!)

My Christmas gift yarn

And I'm off.

I mapped a basic pattern for a baby jumper
Inspiration 1975 (Swedish knit Project) at the air port.

The free-form Blythe dresses,

I began on take off, and

I had completed on landing;-).

Funny looks at my tiny opposites colour yarns of dresses,

Detailed and tiny.

Using a swirl as a back patch and a flower for each one sleeve,

My dress designed.

Pretty dam cute

Unfortunately three weeks before I get to try them on my actual dolls, but hey hoe.........it is my holiday.

And at the rate of everything standing still(Britain's Weather Disaster)

I could be completely stuck here for a lot longer!.

Oj oj oj