Another WIP

This is just a quick post from my office desk in the few minutes I have left before the afternoon patients start to arrive. I have another new WIP to show you that I've been working on awhile, but neglected to post.

Want a little closer look?

Mittens! How exciting! The most exciting thing about them is that it's my own yarn, that I spun myself! Yee-hah! The photos don't really do justice to the sparkly goodness that this fiber is. Click the photos to get a little better look. The fiber is a merino/silk blend with some Firestar added to the batts for sparkle. It comes from Anna at Corgi Hill Farms, and it's just delicious. This is one of my earlier spinning efforts, so it's a bit uneven, but it turned out to be roughly all the same gauge, so it works for me. The pattern is a combination of one of Ann Budd's mitten patterns from her book The Knitter's Handy Book of Patterns, and my own jerry-rigging. I used her numbers to get the thing started, then just adjusted on the fly.  I'll post general directions as to my modifications when I get the things done.

I'll post more later, but I just had to get this up here. I pulled them out to knit a bit after lunch and thought, why, I'll show the blog world what I'm up to!