FO Friday!
Pattern: Elegant Gauntlets from The Purl Stitch by Sally Melville
Yarn: 3 oz (~263 yds) of Mountain Colors Bearfoot Sock Yarn in color “Meadow” from TheKnitter.com
Needles: US 3 Bryspun DPNs
Notes: I *loved* working with this yarn and the large amount of st st in the round combined with this nice to knit yarn made these fly off my needles in less than 5 days time! I think it would have been even faster if it hadn’t been such a busy week this week. I’d definitely consider knitting these for a gift. That said, the one person on the “I’d perhaps like to knit for this person for Christmas this year” for whom these would make a nice item I already have about a dozen other ideas for… Though one of those ideas would likely transfer over to someone else on that list. So, it might be an option yet. If I knit another pair I would definitely lengthen the ribbing at the top. I find when I’m wearing it that it likes to curl down a bit and I think an additional 4-6 rnds of ribbing would correct that. If you weren’t going for speed and simplicity they would look great with a cable going down the top or that too.
Now, the observant of you no doubt noticed something peaking out from under the top gauntlet, yes? Well, to say that our actual anniversary night was a dud is an understatement of monumental proportions (with much thanks to Dine for America). However, even though the gift from DH was backordered and only shipped on Wednesday, it arrived at his work yesterday morning and I got it last night and we went out to the originally planner dinner last night as well which was so good we can’t hardly believe we were eating in Ft. Collins. I am now the proud owner of a white 4 Gb iPod Nano that has been engraved on it’s shiny back…
That almost makes a cool sort of self-portrait, doesn’t it? He also had been magically taking in some of my favorite CDs from the massive music library to work and ripping them there so my iPod came pre-loaded with ~1Gb of some of my favorite albums. We are planning on scratching our ripped music and starting over. We had been ripping at a very high bit rate that no only reduces the amount of music one can put on players like the Nano and DH’s Archos, but it eats up hard drive space and we don’t have such fantastic home audio speakers that we can tell a difference anyway. But, I’ve temporarily put a couple more Gb of music on there so I could have my full line up “Chill Out” music I’ve been favoring lately. DH did have almost half of that playlist on there already and almost the full “Get Up & Dance” playlist. So, he did an awesome job of loading it up! I was wondering why we was looking for the Keane CD and why there was such a huge gap in the K section (Diana Krall and Alison Krauss and Victor Krauss) last week :-)
Now, since mom has an audible subscription and I do all the downloading for her I need to figure out how to make the Nano work with that. I’m soooo excited! It’ll make knitting and spinning even that much more enjoyable and I’ll get my number of books read this year back up and closer to last years total!
My only complaint about the Nano is that there is no place to hook a lanyard. I like to be free to move about the house cleaning or taking care of Emma or spinning or knitting etc. and I don’t want such a thin thing in my pocket where I’m likely to forget about it and sit down. And, yes they sell a lanyard/headphone combo that is awesome in idea, however I have funny ears and the ear bud type of headphones really don’t work for me. Not to mention they are backordered by nearly a month!
It does seem there are some silcone sleeves that include a lanyard option so I’ll probably end up going that route. However, those aren’t to be released for another 10 days or more either and then there is the time it will take them to get to Ft. Collins. So, in the meantime I think I’ll take that final ounce of Bearfoot Meadow and turn it into an Nano Sock with an i-cord strap to wear around my neck. I should be able to whip one up pretty quickly.
As much as I like this, I know it isn’t practical for my Nano use. But darn that would be such fun!
Oh, I’m open to any recommendations on PodCasts. I listen to most of the NPR ones and KnitCast of course, but now that it’s more convient for me to listen to them I’m definitely interested in adding some more to my line up, so leave me a comment!
Oh, and I’m nice and warm today. It seems if you hold out you can get the heat turned on! ;-)
