Ok, so I really didn’t even come close to finishing all the stuff I wanted to for Christmas. My lameness runneth over. I got the front, back, and half a sleeve done on Dennis’ sweater. I gave it to him in its unfinished state, which means I can work on it when he is around now. That was the hardest thing – finding time to knit when he wasn’t around.

When he was around, I worked on a couple of smaller, sillier projects. First, the Godzilla Mittens:

These are adapted from the Later Gator mittens in the second Stitch-n-Bitch book. They were for Leigh, and I totally owe her boyfriend an apology, as she seemed to enjoy biting people with them quite a bit, and he is probably getting the worst of it. They’re made out of the $2.49 Peruvian wool from elann.com.

I crocheted ridges on the spine by working on the bars in between the stitches and making one crochet stitch per knit row. Each ridge is a slip stitch, a single crochet, a half-double, a double, and a triple, and then the same pattern backwards. Start again for the second ridge. Turn at the end and make a slip in the slip, single in the single, a half-double in the half-double, etc, until you get to the triple – do three triple in that stitch, then go back down as before.

Behind the eyes (the only sew-ons I could find were kinda small), there are slightly cupped crochet circles. Ch 2, 6 sc in first ch, next row: 12 dcs. Break yarn. Make two. Sew the googly eyes to the center, and then sew the whole thing to the mitten.

For the teeth (the embroidered teeth on the pattern were not mighty enough), I first crocheted (sc) the mitten and the mouth together (mattress stitch was called for in the pattern) with green yarn, then switched to white and made teeth on the front shaped part, which are slip, single, ch2, double, ch2, single, slip, start new tooth.
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