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Friday, December 16, 2011

FO Friday 2


I have two projects to share with you on today's FO Friday.













































 I started the toast arm warmers last weekend and finished it in a couple of days. It used less than 1 ball of Patons Wool yarn in this lovely white color with blue tweed.

I am surprised at how much I love this yarn. It is very soft, much softer than the non-tweedy Patons. And considering I got it on sale for $3, it's not a bad deal.





















I've been wearing this arm warmers every day. I love it. I can see myself making this again. But I think I will modify the pattern so I can use a whole skein of yarn.





















I've also made this mug sleeve. The pattern is from the book Knitted gifts: irresistible projects to make and gift that I borrowed from the library. I've never seen knitted mug sleeve before so of course I had to make one.

I used leftover yarn from the Idlewood sweater. It is a very fast knit and took me an hour to do. Good for scrap yarn that you don't use.






























I checked on ravelry and unfortunately the pattern is not available there. But I did a search on "mug sleeve" and there are a lot of pattern results. Mostly free.

I want to make this one and this one.

Please check out Tami Ami's blog for more FO's.

7 comments:

  1. I love the arm warmers. THanks for the picture wearing them. I didn't have a concept of how long they are. I wouldn't have thought of them. Thanks for sharing.

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  2. Hi Yarn Changer,
    The arm warmers are about the 11 inches but I'm sure you can make them longer or shorter if you like.

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  3. Love those arm warmers... I think I need a pair!

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  4. Very nice armwarmers - I can see how they'd become faves immediately. Love the coffee cozy too; such a pretty colour!

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  5. Love the mug sleeve. Most of the patterns I've seen are too involved with intarsia etc. I like your's...much more day to day. Wish you could share your pattern. I'll keep looking.

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  6. I loooove those arm warmers. I want some in the EXACT same yarn now. so pretty and very "wintery".

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