I did a little bit of knitting on The Sands of Time this morning with no pain! I feel like this is major progress…and I feel proud that I’m trying to be sensible about RSI.

Before you read more, I have an announcement to make… I have gone GifBoom crazy! You can see all of the gifs I have been creating of Pippin here. We had our first cuddle last night! I feel like the luckiest girl in the world.

The Sands of Time

This pattern is a test-knit that I am doing for Christine from Harmonic Oscilator Knits. The pattern will be a pair of mitts – I do not know if I’m going to get these finished by my deadline, which is the beginning of March, because of the RSI – but I’m going to give it a good go anyway!

The super-talented designer has made this a reversible pattern – you can see just from my swatch that this is coming out very clearly. The way it has been written allows the whole mitt to be reversible as well. Isn’t that clever?!

I am swatching in Regia Sock Yarn; I think the colour is Marrakech by Kaffe Fassett. I would never normally do something like this in a self-striping yarn, but I have been keeping all of my swatches recently and I don’t have enough of the yarn I intend to use for the mitts to swatch with as well, nor do I have enough of the Marrakech for a standalone project.

The mitts themselves will be done in ‘self-striping’ in shades of grey that I hope will be a lot more subtle than this, and will not overcrowd the stitch-pattern. This is also a Regia sock yarn that I have had for absolutely ages.

Just a note on Regia yarns – I used to absolutely love them, but have recently gone off them in a big way. I find that my finished objects in these yarns are never as well-received as I would hope them to be, given the cost of the yarn! I have made several pairs of socks as gifts in Regia, and each recipient has loved the effort…but not really the socks, as they have been quite uncomfortable to wear.

I’m hoping that on the hands, when the knitting won’t be squeezed between a pair of shoes and the skin, this will not be a problem – especially as I intend this to be a gift for my brother’s next birthday. (When he will officially be in his LATE-TWENTIES…I feel like I’m getting old!)

Much love,

Corrie xx

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