I’ve posted a time or two about my knitting projects…  Well, I recently decided I didn’t want to knit another scarf, and I had a somewhat inexplicable hankering for fingerless gloves.

So what did I do?  Naturally I Googled “how to knit easy fingerless gloves” (and I’m pretty sure I landed on this video).  Here’s the result:

They’re comfy too, even if it’s too warm to really wear them yet…  And they’re my best project yet for sounding complicated when they really weren’t!  It turns out you can knit fingerless gloves even if you can only knit rectangles…

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A month or so ago I mentioned my new hobby of knitting.  I thought today I’d share my recently-finished scarf.  This was my first real project, and while it’s not perfect, it is fun to be able to see how my knitting improved from one end of the scarf to the other.

It’s hard to tell here, but it’s about six feet long–I calculated how long to make it by measuring against another scarf, and it came out just the right length to reach to my waist when I wear it.

I have to say, this is the least time-intensive hobby I’ve ever had, since I only do it while I’m watching TV, or other things I would have been doing anyway. 🙂

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I have recently (very recently) learned how to knit.  Some of the credit goes to Robin McKinley, who waxes on about yarn occasionally on her blog, and Jessica Day George, whose book Princess of the Midnight Ball featured a hero who knits.  Mostly, though, it’s because of a friend who kindly taught me the basics.  Last weekend we had a “knitting and watch Jane Austen movies” get-together. 🙂

So I bought pretty yarn and knitting needles, and have started a scarf–because it seemed like the simplest of projects to begin with!

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