Isn't This Pretty?

 

Well, yes, it IS  pretty which is why it is a great shame that I am going to have to pull it out and start over. This is the week 3 advent yarn from LayFamilyYarn which came with a basic pattern for some fingerless mitts and I was really enjoying knitting them until I tried them on after starting the top rib and decided that they are just too big. They were fine to start with but there is no shaping as you go up the hand ( which is normally OK , but not in this instance as the cast on just has too many stitches.) I had already done a decrease before starting the rib but it wasn't enough so at some point quite soon I am going to have to pull all this out and look for another pattern that is a better fit and use that instead. I have a couple of contenders in mind, but really I could have done without wasting my time on knitting something that was going to be no good. A lesson to check and double check when things are one size I suppose. 

The weekly advents are now all fully open; this is the one from LayFamilyYarn this week, which is a sock set. The colour is a bit blown out; the one that looks vaguely like a pale minty green is actually cream  and the other mini is a pale apricot colour. I wouldn't use either of those in socks with the main skein because I don't think the apricot 'goes', and really a cream toe or heel is just asking for frustration in the laundry department. They're all pretty colours though, just not together for socks for me. 

here is the final one from Skein and the Stitch, which is the Queen of Hearts

again, not 100% convinced about the 'toning' mini but I love all the colours in themselves. 

And here are the latest few days from The Yarn Artist - at last we have moved away from pale aquas, olive greens and mustard yellows! 

Well I now have an appointment with the ironing board, which coincidentally lives in the same room as my knitting pattern folders....