Tricoquine in the land of the stinky cheese

I've been busy...

...look what I've been up to.

The February Baby Sweater for little Molly who was born on the 19th.

It just needs buttons.  I had bid on some beautiful vintage mother of pearl buttons in cream on Ebay but lost. Guess I'll just have to wait for another round of bidding.

Saartje's booties for a pregnant friend from my book club. I had some leftover yards of the gorgeous Handmaiden Ottawa that I used to make my sister's Clapotis and thought it would be perfect for little girl booties.

I made these last night with watching the latest Bourne film (yes, I just admitted that!).

Now to find some cute buttons to go with it. I'm thinking a bright color.  Any suggestions?

Husband's Socks 101.  I finished the first sock in time for his birthday but then lost one of my needles on our road trip to the Grand Canyon.

I'm about 70% through the second sock.  These are my first socks (you can't count the Jaywalkers that I completely abandoned to the bottom of the knitting basket) and I am so proud of them.  Using the Socks 101 post on knitty really helped me go through the anatomy of a sock and I feel much more comfortable now to conquer something a little more tangy.

What to look forward to?

As the cool weather sets in, I've been itching to start myself a new scarf. Ravelry has proved to be inspirational. I have a couple of ideas - Ene's Scarf from Scarf Style, Muir from Knitty Fall 2007, Icarus Shawl from Interweave Summer 2006 and the list goes on.

What do you have in your Fall line-up.

She loved them!

Endpaper mitts
Originally uploaded by Tricoquine.

Nathalie loved her endpaper mitts so much that she didn't even take them off for her belated birthday meal we ate together. Her birthday was in January!

Ravelry Anonymus

Just as I was leaving work this evening (around 11pm), I checked my email. Lo and behold, an email from the girls at Ravelry. I could finally join the club!

Alias: Tricoquine

It is now 2am, I should have been asleep for nearly 2 hours now...Ravelry is addicting. Someone help!

Fall

After two weeks in nearly 100°F weather on the West coast of the United States, the cool, crisp air that greeted me as I stepped past the heavy wooden doors from my office courtyard into the street this evening came as a surprise. By 8pm, the sun had already set and the city was enveloped in darkness. These are telltale signs that Fall is upon us which seems morbidly out of place given that we never had a real summer.

Thankfully I finished Nathalie's endpaper mitts just in time for the cool weather to begin.

Pattern: Endpaper Mitts by Eunny Jang

Yarn: Rowan 4ply soft in Espresso and Wink

Amount used: less than one skein of each

Needles: 2.5mm double points.  The pattern says to use smaller needles for the ribbing but I couldn't be bothered and I believe it turned out just fine.

Knitting these mitts was my first encounter with fair isle and two handed knitting. Intimidated at first, I quickly adapted to the rhythm of the pattern although my first attempts were exceedingly tight and I ripped several times.  The Italian tubular cast on the and the kitchener rib bind off were also fun techniques to learn. Click on the links to see some bloggers who put together some excellent tutorials.