FO Friday

This week, I finished a few pairs of mittens you (probably) already know about. I already posted pictures of the mouse mittens but I thought I'd try to get a modeled picture of the baby raccoons.

My son, desperately ripping the mittens off his hands.

Yeah that didn't happen. Meanwhile, the foxes are in a half-done state, because I don't like knitting with the 100% acrylic. So that's the mitten progress. Some bears are next, for those who are wondering.

I also cast on AND bound off this little monster on the 16th. I used the leftovers from the contrasting color of Toothy Joe.

Before.

For a minute there I was worried I was going to run out of yarn, and thought I'd have to skip the ears altogether. I'm glad I didn't, though, because the ears really add to his personality.

After.

Though, I guess technically it's a girl? The pattern is Gabby the Garden Monster, from the Big Book of Knitted Monsters I got for Christmas.

For my last finished object of the week, I finally completed the second sock out of the Opal sock yarn I got at Purlescense yarns in Sunnyvale. After an unfortunate incident with a banana, (I will not recount it here) I had to start the second sock over once. While I was at it, I re-wound the ball to reverse the colors. I quite like them.

The colorway is 5147, Joan d'Arc. I was very pleased with the colors, but not with the texture. At least before washing, the socks feel scratchy and not very soft at all. Also, I generally knit 64 stitch socks on size 2's and it gives me a good-fitting sock. With this yarn, however, my socks came out quite loose. I think I could have gone down to a 0, and even then I could have dropped the stitch count to 60.

As always, check out more FO's at Tami's Amis.