And it's done!

The starry baby kimono, also for Thursday, is now finished! I'm really happy with it, especially the icord ties, for some reason.





Now, what to knit next...

Baby things are surprisingly small

...Yeah, I know. And the pope shits in the woods.

After saying I might get a pair of mittens out of the green-and-orange combo when I'd finished Tomten and the jester hat, I realised that I really should weigh the remaining yarn and work out how much of it was left. It was more than I thought:



This is the seamless baby kimono, with added colourwork - the large star at centre-back is intarsia (apart from the points at the bottom, which are stranded), and the band of small stars are stranded. The light-green-and-orange doesn't work very well from a contrast point of view, because the colours are too similar in brightness, but it was fun knitting it, and has reminded me that even though I'm evidently incapable of maintaining motivation for stranded knitting for two socks, I do enjoy it in smaller amounts.

Since taking the photo, I've finished the body, and am now working on both sleeves in parallel, because I'll be finishing them on fumes and I want the stripes to match. Sadly there's not enough yarn left to do a band of the smaller stars on the sleeves as well.

Green and orange and some more green

Tomten is now finished, apart from the buttons and button loops. I'm trying to source some green plastic toggles for this, but I can't finish the icord trim until I know what I'm doing about fastenings.



Despite being made of the same yarn, at the same gauge, the jester hat doesn't match the hoodie at all, which is good and nicely avoids the absurdity of making a hat to go with a hoodie ;-)



I might make some little pom-poms for the corners of this, and I've got a fair chunk of yarn left, so I'll probably make some mittens as well.

Making speedy progress

I've now finished the body and the hood of Tomten (sewing in the ends as I go); only the sleeves left to do!

The opposite of lost mojo...

...Is what happens when I have loads of ideas for things I want to do, and I flit manically between them, unable to settle on anything for long enough to make decent progress ;-)



My second package arrived today, and I've swatched and started knitting EZ's Tomten, for Thursday (which is what we're calling my oldest friend's child-to-be). I love knitting baby things - they're small and quick, and I get to knit with bright colour combinations that most of the other people I knit for wouldn't wear.

Let's pretend this cardigan is a film...

I finished principal photography last night, although I think I'm going to have to go back and re-do the last shot. So now it's on to the editing. I did a bit last night, re-editing some of it into a slightly different story, but there's more to do: there's a bit near the beginning where the plot needs tightening up, so the middle act makes more sense, and I think I'm going to have to shoot some new footage, although annoyingly it will also mean re-shooting some scenes I'm happy with, but I think it's worth it for the new structure. And a bit of editing in of stock footage I have lying around should tie the whole thing together nicely. This won't be quite the film I thought it was when I began, but I like this one better :-)

(Decrypting and photos to come when it's finished.)