Almost 3 months after the last mutsjes/little hats' post from July 23, here's the new batch from both of us!
First, from Astrid:
A reminder that Astrid makes all her own designs "on the fly,"
using solid-colored yarn that she mixes and matches.
The bottom-left hat uses a sparkly red yarn that makes it very Christmassy,
so she's in the process of making several more-or-less the same.
My mutsjes since July 23, basically in the order in which I made them:
This yarn came from our knitting club's communal stash.
It's hard to believe that these hats are all from the same self-striping sock yarn
(from Dries and Ineke's socks)!
More self-striping yarn from our communal stash. I like the colors together.
Again, from the communal stash, giving me fresh excitement.
Back to my own sock yarn.
More from the communal stash. As you see, I'm going back-n-forth.
It energizes me to use new yarn designs I haven't seen before.
Here's another of MY sock yarns, all from the same skein.
Talk about wake-up socks before the mutsjes were even made!
Communal stash!
I should have thought of this before, to add the pair of socks to the matching mutsjes!
From the socks I made for my Big Sis in England.
Two mutsjes from a pair of socks for moi...but why only TWO? Ah, yes...
Astrid used my yarn last year, with my permission, before I knew I'd be knitting my own mutsjes.
From socks for Astrid.
Communal stash.
From socks for BIL, Don.
From one of my favorite socks for moi!
Hmmm. From the communal stash, I think.
They all start to run together for me!
These next 2 collages are from a communal skein no one else wanted.
That skein (top-right) yielded 17 mutsjes! It was a hey-day for me.
I love the little flecks of snow.
From another favorite pair of socks for moi.
From socks for daughter Amy.
From another favorite pair of socks for moi.
Last but not least, a loner from communal scrap.
Nothing is going to waste, if I can help it.
I'm in the midst of knitting another batch from my own yarn, but that will be shown later, a couple months from now.
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In the meantime, Astrid and I fly to Atlanta next Thursday for our first trip back since 2019. GOD WILLING AND THE CREEK DON'T RISE! I add that because the hoops we've gone through have been harrowing and stressful for us both...ending next Tuesday with an Internationally-Approved COVID test that needs to be negative before we're allowed to check in.
Astrid says the minute our test comes back negative, allowing our travel agent to check us in on Wednesday evening, with boarding passes, she'll finally be able to relax and believe the trip will, indeed, happen. I agree. The best news is that we're taking non-stop flights both there and back!
