I’m getting so close to the end of the fingering weight yarn scraps!    Still have too much of the Knitpicks Stroll Merlot Heather and Anzula Cloud Dusty Rose to get into hexipuffs yet, so here are Tiny Selbumittens.

Pattern: Roger Bear by Nice and KnitYarn: Classic Elite MountainTop Vista in Peat and Patternworks Bretton Heathers in color 9000Embroidery Floss: DMC 581 (eyes) and 3716 (nose)Needles: Size 5 DPNs and Size 8 circs I really love this pattern – easy, uses up scraps, and super cute.    I’m definitely keeping this in my repertoire.

Getting those ornaments done put me into hexipuff territory for the Knitpicks Stroll Dusk and Pine, as well as some Knit Picks Palette in Silver (since I had the right needles out).      Love knocking three yarns off the stash page…

Pattern: Mini Hats and Mitts by Anna NikipirowiczYarn: Twillingate Farm Alpaca, Knit Picks Stroll in the Merlot Heather, Pine and Dusk colorways and Anzula Cloud in the Dusty Rose colorwayNeedles: Size 3 circs and DPNs I moved on to this pattern because some of the options were already in the round, and others could be

Ok, here we have Christmas ornaments, part two – the continual effort to get some of my sock yarn down to hexipuff levels of leftovers.    This is Mini Mits and Hats by Anna Nikipirowicz, and some of the patterns are actually in the round, or could easily be adapted to that.    Definitely more my

Pattern: Christmas Ornaments by MillaMia SwedenYarn: Anzula Cloud in the Dusty Rose colorway, Knit Picks Palette in the Clarity colorway, and Knitpicks Stroll in the Merlot Heather, Pine and Dusk colorwaysNeedles: Size 2.5 circs The problem with this pattern is that they all involve seaming.    I tried the Christmas tree ornament, and had a

I’ve got two separate projects going right now.     The first is from this set of Christmas Ornaments, by MillaMia Sweden.     They’re supposed to be for sport weight yarn, but I’m using them to wear down some of my larger scraps of fingering weight.    (Which fortunately, are vaguely Christmas colored.)  

Pattern: Leap! by Brooke RamosYarn: Knit Picks Stroll in the Dusk, Pine, and Merlot Heather colorways, and Knit Picks Palette in the Silver colorwayNeedles: Size 1.5 DPNs So these are my first pair of mitts with actual fingers – and I’ll admit, if I was doing these again, I’d make the fingers longer.