There was an attempted robbery at my house this weekend. Thankfully nothing was stolen, but some of the yarn I'm using to for the Kenobi Jacket was found unraveled on the floor. Security cameras managed to get these photos:
Experts were able to create this compostite of one the suspects:
Turns out this little puppy already has a record. Police believe that he was working with an accomplice who fled the scene, notice the brown butt in the security photo.
In knitting news, I've been working on a pair of convertible mittens for a friend's birthday (which was, ahem, on Feb 26th- I've been really busy, ok). If I hadn't ripped the damn things out three times already...
Problem: I hate the pattern. HATE! But, she emailed me this specific pattern ("you know I wish I had some of those mittens with the flap thing...") and there aren't very many patterns for convertible mittens. And I had some stash Frog Tree Alpaca that I thought would be pretty. So I followed the pattern. The stupid cable didn't show up, the flap cable didn't line up with the back of the hand, there's a three inch cuff, etc. (rip, rip, rip) Hmmm... maybe the yarn was a bad choice. Well, lemme try a diffrent cable down the back. Ugly. (rip, rip, ) In the end I attempted a little fair isle, which I still hate, but hate the least.
This is not my first fair isle, but my tension is really shitty, and I don't like all the orange. Is it possible that these mittens hate me as much as I hate them? I think I'm just bitter because I really wanted to make her a pair of endpaper mitts...