FO #12

Wow, so it's been a while. I'm finally finished with that damn baby sweater, and it took one less skein of yarn than I thought it would, leaving me extra yarn that I have no idea what to do with. I guess I'll put it with the Cotton-Ease that I'll be using to crochet little creatures with soon.

But before I turn to that (will be in another post), I used the rest of the Malabrigo look-alike yarn that I used on my cowl to knit a pair of wrist warmers.



They are cute, but even though I knit a few extra rows on each before the thumb, they don't keep my hands very warm. They're just good for keeping the wind from going up your coat. I guess now that it is 'spring', they may work better.

I just wanted to use up that special yarn I got in New Orleans, and I wanted at least one matching set of something. I remember reading on the Yarn Harlot's blog that her daughter pointed out that you could always tell a knitter because their accessories didn't match and that's always stuck with me. So now, I have a nice matching cowl and wristlets. And that little ball up there in the picture is all the yarn I have left. One thing I really hate is when you have a lot of yarn left over from a project. Because by the time I'm done with a particular project, I don't want to see or use that same yarn for a really long time. There are other problems with yarn sticking around, but that's my main one. I feel like it is optimal to use up all the yarn for every project, or you're left with myriad single and partial skeins that don't add up to much.



I didn't have enough yarn left to do more rows on the hand part anyway, but normally I like my fingerless mitts to come up at least to my second knuckle. Oh well. They are really cute!