Rising

She's always working too much and going places and she's a slip of a woman (as opposed to me with my warm-keeping padding), so I thought a comfy scarf when the weather changes was the right thing to do. Plus I had these 2 balls of "rayure double" from Monoprix in fall colors, a wool/acrylic blend with wonderful variegated colorways.

I also splurged - couldn't help it - for two skeins of Manos 100% wool, one in brown and one in deep pink-red, which I think I might use to stripe a Baby Surprise Jacket for a friend's new(ish) baby for Christmas. I know I want to knit one of those, I'm just unsure about the yarn for it and the gauge issues I might have using it for this pattern, which I have never yet knitted. (If you have advice about that, please don't hesitate to pipe up...)

Last month I was overjoyed to discovered a French yarn I didn't know, the little brand Fonty, which puts out, among other things, a 100% wool yarn in jumper weight and lovely solid colors.

I bought a brown and a teal in two different yarns of comparable weight (the teal is a cotton/wool blend) to finally try and make myself a pair of Eunny's Endpaper Mitts. What you see there is my swatch, the good side of. I wanted to see if I was getting gauge w/ the middle size of needles (3mm) for a pair in the M size... I am not: I get 9+ stitches to the inch where Eunny wants 8. But it's okay, because it fits my arm, wrist, over my hand in all the right ways.

Now I only have to frog and start over, with the proper smaller needles on the ribbed part, AND without making as many mistakes in the chart. The bad side of the swatch is littered with awful awful misses. It's a portable project, though it demands a lot of concentration for me (my first colorwork ever!), so I might take it with me on the upcoming travels... we'll see. I wish I was done already, because my arms are cold, but it's very slow knitting.

On the needles I also have a Print o'the Wave scarf in seasilk... It's reduced from the stole, of course (and again I'm using a free pattern from Eunny, where would I be without her?). I'm at the border part now, which makes it non-portable: I need to consult the chart plus be really careful with the whole attaching procedure, it's better if I have a flat surface, some quiet and really good light.

I'll post some pictures of that when it's done; that piece is always so spectacular in all the photographs of it that I've seen. I hope mine will turn out that way as well.