Colorwork Bishes!

So I've long been a "color work is for horrible reindeer sweaters" type of person.  However after being guilted into making a whopping pair of four pairs of Tardis Socks (and eventually a fifth, because I'm a glutton for punishment so I offered someone to make yet another pair). 

I girded my loins (ok knitting needles) and gave it a go.  Within an hour I could knit with two hands (eg one hand Continental and the other US style) and had pretty colors!  That didn't look horrid or like a reindeer!  (Also knitting w/ two hands at the same time makes me feel like a rocket scientist.  I'm easily impressed with myself apparently).

Cable On the Side Mittens Review

This is a review of Maggie Menzel's Cable on the Side Mittens.

This is the second pair of mittens I've knitted and I must say these are, in my limited opinion, wonderful.  I'm much more likely to knit a pair of fingerless gloves than mittens, so I was a bit intimidated by the top of the mittens and finishing off the thumb.  The pattern is incredibly clear, and even for a relatively newbie, (to mittens at least) such as myself, after reading the actual pattern I felt much better about it.  The nice thing about these mitts is that they look far more complicated than they are to knit. 

It took me about 5 hours over three days to knit the first mitten (I will admit the mid portion gets tedious because of the relative simplicity and repetition of the pattern. I kept cheating on the mitten with other projects.) but was great for quick cast off gratification.