SailingKnitter

What a change from last week to today! From the isolated back-to-nature scene of the Kuna Yala islands to the cosmopolitan life of the big city of Cartegena. This is the view I get each night now as I engage in "hammock time". It's still in the 80's at night, but there's a nice breeze which makes the hammock sway ever so slightly. This is where I knit in my head - work out patterns - mull over ideas, etc.

Now, all I can share with everybody is the knitting I've done for the Mittens for Akkol group for the children's orphanage in Kazakhstan. The other things I've been knitting have been designs are for the Holiday Mystery Gifts Knitalong which begins again this September. So, if I showed those goodies here it wouldn't be a mystery now, would it? But smart folks may expect a couple of mitten patterns.
Let's see...the grey ones are adult sized mittens knit from Cascade 220 wool with a heathered green set of stipes. The striped pair are adult mittens from lots of different leftover yarns - Alpaca, Llama, Wool, and Icelandic (Lopi) Wool.

These wild things are knit from an Opal yarn (Rodeo?) which is a sock weight yarn. You know, when I use these self-patterning yarns everyone is so amazed. I try to explain that all I'm doing is plain 'ole knitting and the yarn makes the design, but I don't think most non-knitters really understand.

So, besides reading a lot of mystery and trashy novels, I also knit 5 of those cotton diagonal dishcloths. Why? Well, that has to stay a mystery.