Fingerless Gloves

The weather is really more rainy than cold in PDX right now.  I’ll take it.  For the past month or so the heat has been on the fritz in my little office and I’ve been hunched over my space heater trying not to freeze.  I dug a ball of blue Filatura di Crosa Print 127 out of my stash and made these little beauties:

Not quite enough on one skein for both gloves, but I made lemonade out of my lemons and came up with that green accent block from another color of the same type of yarn.  I really need to start taking pictures in better light. 

Lately I’ve been making frankenpatterns.  It’s pretty empowering to be able to take a bit from this pattern here, that pattern there, and make something more free form.  Also, it never ceases to amaze me how much you learn from doing the same project more than once.  It really gives you a feel for how certain techniques work and a better “vocabulary” when it comes to reading completed work.

Like so many of us this year, I’m trying to keep things pretty basic over the next couple of months.  If you’re in Portland and interested in seeing some pretty ideas for your home or garden, check out the Yard, Garden & Patio Show this weekend at the Convention Center.  I’ll be representing my rocks, as per usual. 

After the disastrous mass-extermination that I accidentally waged on my garden starts last year, I’m going to keep it simple and only grow some tasty red currant tomates.  Those managed to survive and even thrive under my (apparently) aggressive tender care.  

I can almost smell spring.

~ by Hillory on February 25, 2009.