I'm Having the "I Hate the Color Combo" Blues

I'm currently knitting a scarf, hat and fingerless glove set for our school's auction. Love the pattern, but semi-embarrassed to knit this in public as I absolutely hate the school's colors. . . so Halloween. The pattern (Blue Strips by Andrea Halasi) is really beautiful, but I've done away with many of the stripes as I just don't like the orange and black combo. I'm thinking the hat and gloves will be solid black and not include the orange accents that I'd originally planned. The auction organizers talked me into school colors, but it's just not doing it for me.

One Down, Many More to Go

Finished the Sailor's Rib Fingerless Gloves by Gretchen Tracy last night. Have not blocked them, which might improve the look. Can't say I've done my best work, but I think they will do.

Started other pair, but this time using Yarnspiration's Caron Fingerless Glove pattern. I realized once I started that the pattern was for single pointed needles, but I had already cast onto double pointed, so I scrambled to see if anyone had already reworked the pattern. Luckily, I found arbettes'  rewrite for circular needles on Ravelry. Seems to be working quite well.

Again using some older yarn that I got several years ago at the London Knit and Stitch Show. I had enough at one time for a sweater, but there always seemed to be a project to knit using a ball here and a ball there until I now don't have enough left for anything substantial. Probably should just get rid of these through trade to someone who needs a few extra balls. Off to get more done.

Sometimes You've Gotta Improvise

Rushed out of the house on Saturday morning to catch a train to Sheffield for my daughter's swim meet. Thought I had everything packed to knit a scarf for the school's auction. Hadn't really read the pattern properly so didn't even noticed the small cables up the sides. So with no cable needle on my person, but not wanting to waste a solid two hours of knitting, I improvised. Can't say a plastic fork was the best option, but it was the only one I could find. Knitted for probably ten hours on that thing, but nice to get home to a real cable needle.