Merino Mitts - A Complete Pair

Finished the mitts, they fit me fine and I have road tested (well beach tested) them this morning when I took the dog for a walk on the beach. They are beautifully soft and warm and are easy to throw a ball in (what else matters!)

Well its dark now (at 16:48) so I am just settling down to start a crocheted rug, made from the false selvedge that is cut off the tweed as it is woven, using a very large, custom made crochet hook.

Where does the time go?.....

It has just dawned on me that I have not posted for a while, the time seems to have flown by! Since the last blog we have aquired a few new arrivals to the croft, I have got 6 lovely Ducks to keep my drakes in check, and they are doing a good job at it, they have got the drakes to swim on the burn so they are doing proper 'ducky' things now.

We have also got 8 fluffy sheep, 7 white and 1 black, I have not been able to get any pictures yet as I have not been up on the croft in enought light to take them! It is getting dark about 4:30pm at the moment so when I get a nice picture I will post one.

I have finished all my Christmas knitting now, with a few to embellish, and I have completed one of my handspun mitts, its lovely but I am not going to post any pics till I have finished the other. I have been busy weaving as well, off again today to do some more of the tweed I have at the moment.

Merino Mitts - Part 2

I have been busy weaving over the last week, and have also been spinning the rest of the yarn for the mitts. I have changed from Herdwick to a dyed orange merino as the Herdwick was a little kempy and was shedding a bit to much to use in mitts.

I am just waiting for a nice dry day to wash the yarn to 'set the twist' and wind it into a ball then onto knitting the mitts, which are needed today as this morning I had to break the ice on the animals water.

Yesterday I got 6 new additions to the croft, 6 beautiful ducks to keep my 3 drakes in check! They are a little scared of me at the mo so i will post some pics when they are a little braver, but are happy to come up from the burn for grain! They have also managed to get the drakes to swim, I was almost going to have to show them myself!!