Awards, Blog Prize and Catching Up

Madalyn at Unravel Me nominated me for this:

And, Tracey at I'm Just Me... thinks I'm sweet!

Thank you! I'm so fortunate to be spoiled with awards from such thoughtful blog friends despite the fact that I've been such a blog slacker lately!

And, over the weekend, I received my blog prize from Yarnivorous, a lovely set of her stitch markers, including one with a kitty bead in honor of my blog title! I'm thrilled with them and have tried to do them justice in these pics. You'll want to stop by her online shops!





Thanks, Yarnivorous!!

In knitting news, I'm working on a pair of wrist warmers for a friend. The Rose Tyler style ones...

And, as you can see from the bike glove tan lines on my hand, I've been doing a lot of cycling, but you can see the pics and read about that on my cycling blog.

FO: Rose's Wrist Warmers

You can tell how much I like the wrist warmers in this scene...

...as I've already finished up a pair of my own!


Yarn and needles details are on Ravelry.

I did the same increase stitches for both thumbs, so they are not exactly mirrored, but I wasn't sure how to do the left one differently and it hardly matters anyway! Though, I think I will try to look it up sometime.

Now, I have to wait for cool weather to be able to wear them.

I really want to see season 4, but I will have to wait for the DVDs. I still have some extras to watch on the Dr. Who 1-3 DVDs. Jeff and I have started watching MI-5 as well! Wow! It's intense and very good!

Rose's Wrist Warmers

Thanks for all the nice wishes on our anniversary! Jeff and I had a dinner out and then stopped at the bookstore for a treat, the Dr. Who season 1 boxed set, the 2005 one. We've both been wanting to see it for ages and loved it! I'm a little embarrassed to say how many episodes I've seen already, but we watched all of season 1 and had to go get season 2 late on Sunday. We needed to get season 3 on Wednesday...

I am so hooked! How will I wait for season 4 on DVD??? And I've read online that season 5 won't be filmed until 2010???

(I have had a cold this week, so I've been watching more TV than I would ordinarily have time for...but even if I was healthy I'm pretty sure I'd watch them back to back.)

There are some knits in the series and I loved Rose's wrist warmers shown here in a BBC pic.

I grabbed some yarn from the stash and started planning out a pattern using cable directions in one of the Walker books I have. Well, then it occurred to me someone else must have already done this! Yes, there is a pattern.

As you can see, I skipped the ribbing and changed one set of cables on the right to aim away from the central motif. I started with size 7 needles for the first diamond, changed to size 6 for the next two diamonds and changed to size 5 for the rest. This tapered the warmer to fit my arm nicely and is a good fit on my palm. When I finish the second one, I'll be sure to take a pic that shows the thumb better as that came out well too.

One's done and I'm anxious to get started on the mate for it! Unfortunately I can't knit at the same time as watching the episodes as I don't want to be distracted from the show!!