cimorene

I wanted a way to keep track of my crochet efforts, so I went and got an account at Ravelry: cimness. There's... not much of anything there yet because I haven't finished anything since I registered. But soon!

You see, I lost one of my beloved sheep mittens (a wedding present from Sister-in-Law Sparkle's :D-face hugbert parents even though we've met them 3 times total and they live on the other side of the country and weren't actually present at our 'o hai you got married have some presents' party). Anyway, it's still too cold - right now -15°C - for gloves or thinner mittens, like the convertible fingerless glove-mittens I made last month for texting.

So I've started making a pair using some of the huge box of home-dyed homespun from the sheep on Wax's childhood sheepfarm - two shades of pale yellow onion-dyed and one shade of pale neutral beige-cream-wheat that I suppose is undyed or some other plant.

These are worked entirely in slip stitch, which makes a really dense soft fabric as well as this pretty texture. The right mitten is going to be striped in the same three colors but out of order, with the grey on the bottom, and as the stitch is unusual and also quite tight using an 8.00 hook, so I've had to work several inches of the bottom of the right mitten and then unravel it and start over because it wasn't the same size as the left one, four times now. (ARG.) Anyway, I've got a few cm going in the right size now, so fingers crossed I'll finish them in the next few days and move on to crocheting cupcake appliqués for the back inspired by this scarf found on Tumblr.