Great use of scraps! Our snow is done for now - but we were -1 this morning when I got up. We average 50 inches of snow a year, and usually get 25 inches of it ALL AT ONCE! (I know, New Yorkers in Buffalo say, ‘Only 50 inches?? Hold Muh Beer!’)
Remember that really WARM Fall we had here in SW Wisconsin? Remember how I didn’t bother to mulch my Asparagus patch until December 24th? Yeah. That’s definitely done with now, LOL!
Scraps are currently being stockpiled for Lap Afghans and Prayer Shawls for hospice...but our ‘Chief’ (Beagle) WOULD benefit from some booties!
I posted that dog/booty pic on a family messenger group .... I don’t give them crochet/knitting any more (except for one person), but I mentioned I’d knitted 50 pairs of mittens .... maybe I should “diversify” this year?? That got a few LOLs, but I think some of them are going to hide their dogs when I’m around :-)
Currently, I am working on a pair of arm warmers for an elderly friend - I modified a pattern I’ve made once before. Lying in bed last night, I was thinking ‘knitting’ - I hate it when I’m knitting/crocheting in my head and can’t sleep. If I take yet another pattern, I can have the cable “coming out of” the ribbing on the cuff around the hand & it will go the length of the warmer & disappear into the cuff that is around the arm. I just looked at the arm warmer I did last night - wish I’d had this idea then. I could frog it back to the cuff, but maybe I’ll go ahead & knit a matching arm warmer. For the gift pair, I’d like to get a softer yarn - her favorite color is purple ... the yarn I have is Dusty Rose (Vanna’s Choice - not the softest yarn). A trip to Hobby Lobby is not possible today.
Here’s a link that shows the cable stitches coming out of the ribbing .... I can do this .... would only do one cable down the middle of the arm - not enough room for multiple rows of cable.
https://www.handylittleme.com/lallybroch-fingerless-mittens-knitting-pattern/
Original “plain” pattern that I’ve modified:
https://www.handylittleme.com/simple-knit-arm-warmers/