amimono note

green gloves

-Pattern: my old Japanese knitting book
-Yarn: old yarn from my stash

The green yarn I used for these gloves has been in my knitting yarn bag for years... at least 12 years. I bought the yarn to knit a sweater (which I completed and I don't know where it is now) when I was in college and 2 balls were left. Somehow I couldn't get rid of them.

I was worried that the yarn might broke while knitting because it is old and it was cheap (less than $2/50g-ball, 100% wool), but it was perfectly O.K.

small things

Things I knitted lately.

Spiral ribbed tea cozy
-Yarn: Lion Brand Fishermen's Wool

Computer English-Japanese dictionary cover
-Yarn: left over Regia 6ply

Cell phone cover
-Regia 6ply
I need a button for this.

Alfie bag
-yarn: Rowan All Seasons Cotton
-pattern: Rowan
I finished knitting all the parts for this bag almost a year ago and sewed them together the other day. What finally made me do so? ... I was looking for a small bag to carry rented DVDs and remembered this unfinished bag.

Top-down raglan sweater

Since I've finished a LoTech Sweat, I started a new knitting project. It is a top-down raglan sweater, based on what I've learned from a Japanese knitting correspondence course and a sweater I saw in somebody's blog. I used a crochet-chain cast-on so that I could make a ribbed neckline later. I'm planning to make a square neck, but I'm not sure how to do it yet.

LoTech Sweat for K

• pattern: Chic Knits
• yarn: Cascade220 8keins
• size: 46"
• needle: Takumi bamboo needle Japanese size#6