I've finished exams! Expect much joviality from me now :) and in the spirit of summer, I thought I'd talk about some mittens I knitted.
They were, in fact, only the second thing I ever knitted. I had mastered the art of stripes after the Hogwarts scarf and I was ready to move on to the realm of TWO-COLOURED PATTERNS!
It proved surprisingly easy. What I didn't realise when trying to learn to knit (a painful period of last summer) was that once you know how to do the basic knit and purl stitches, there's not too much more they can throw at you if you're knitting something square. Round is a whole new kettle of fish, but that's for another blog.
Anyhow, I was making the mittens for my boyfriend, so he went for a fairly plain, manly colour scheme (not maroon and gold, surprise surprise). This time I decided not to knit for him as a surprise, as that didn't go so well last time. The first one took me a month, and the second one took me a week- by the time I'd finished, in February, it was still cold enough for him to wear them which was more than either of us had expected! I've realised I sound like I'm constantly knitting things for him, so I'd like to point out that I have and AM making inspirational things for myself- I'm just worried that if this blog catches up with what I'm making at the moment then there'll be nothing to post about, as my knitting is sporadic and kind of slow...
I'm working on trying to take more arty/pretty photos of my stuff- not sure I'll ever be cool enough to know how to play round with settings on my camera. In other news I had courgette soup for dinner! And it WASN'T bland- in fact it was more of a herbs with courgette than a courgette with herbs, but still creamy and yum.
I'm pretty proud of the mittens anyway- but Matt's nearly had a heart attack twice because he thought he'd lost one. I think he's scared of me (clever boy).
Finally- this is when pacman somehow appeared in the bottom of my candle?!
Weird.
