I finished a set of gloves I've titled "Death of a Marshmallow", for a friend of mine, as a late/replacement Christmas gift, as hers was lost in the mail. It took me forever, to figure out how to get the gloves to work, and had chocolate-colored yarn to make them, but it just wasn't turning out properly. Then, I decided to grab my K-hook and add a second strand of yarn. Problem was, I had only one skein of chocolate. I needed to stash-dive, and FAST!
I ended up pulling out a white/cream variegated yarn, and decided to work with that. I've found that I love the chaotic variegation that the use of two different colored strands causes. And I finished the gloves. They aren't perfect, but I'm insane for perfection in my projects, but I'm going to send them anyway, and hope that she'll be forgiving.
I finished them last night, and was getting ready to set to work on something else, when my cousin stumbled upon the gloves, and the old prototype I'd made, months ago.
"OOH! CAN I HAVE THOSE?!"
I gave him the prototype, and promised him a pair. So now, I'm working on a pair of gloves in black and bright, bright orange, which I've deced to make two pairs of (One for him, one for me), and am calling "Pumpkin Suicide" (Though, his are entitled, simply, "Jack-o'-Lantern", because, well, he's nine.) So, I've got more projects to finish. Yay!
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