Finally Introducing The Pagosa Mitts!

The hat pattern came out ages ago, and now the matching mitts are here too!

 customizable length, one size fits most :D

I love this set, each piece is so versatile but they also go well together.

 The subtle spiral, the simple shape 

Not to mention the yarn used! The lovely LylianMae spun up some gorgeous gorgeous yarn specifically for this project and she'll have kits available for purchase that will include one or both patterns and the required amounts of yarn, how cool is that? She is definitely one of the nicest ladies to work with and I sincerely appreciate all of her help!

 the accompanying hat 

Interested in making your own Pagosa Set? You can purchase patterns for the hat and mitts separately on Etsy or on Ravelry or you can purchase them as a set for discounted price :)

Its All Coming Back!

There will be a MASSIVE shop update through out the day today.

All of my knitted items are coming back to the shop!

All of my hats, my scarves, mitts, bags, and other et ceteras will be added to the shop and finally available for purchase again :)

Who else is excited?  (Obviously, I am!)

Yellow Order

Let me show you a recent custom order I created.

I love them. I didn't want to let them go! I hand dyed the yarn myself and we all know how much I love the color yellow. Sad to see them leave, but so happy they'll be keeping someone else's hands toasty warm :D

I knit them out of this yarn, that I mentioned back in this post.

They were knit in a nice ribbed pattern to ensure that they fit a range of arm sizes and the mitten flap open up to allow the fingers to move freely to unlock the door, turn on the car, answer the phone, and reach into your wallet all without having to sacrifice the warmth of your hand!

Revisting an old project and updating a new one

Remember back in this post where I showed you some custom mitts I made for nigatsubebe? Today I have a picture of her wearing them! I'm so glad she likes them, and I cannot wait to use the yarn I got in exchange, I know just what I want to do with it :)

In other news, we redid our website layout again. I know I know, but hopefully this will be the second to last time (we want to design it totally ourselves and not have to use a template) but in the mean time, what do you think of the new layout?

And for that website, I don't know if you noticed, but we have a Featured Products section. We are also looking for products to feature. Plastic-free of course, perhaps some products that we use everyday that we can get rid of plastic from? And always looking for new ways to recycle old plastic in the home, or news about plastic reformations and what not. Please don't hesitate to contact us with anything: support@noplasticchallenge.com

Mitts and yarns

Recently another Etsian, nigatsubebe, and I decided to swap some of her yarn for some elbow length fingerless mitts. I found some awesome recycled, eco friendly yarn which was also soft and in some gorgeous colors (I picked black and turquoise for the mitts since she said she liked those colors together).Since I get the Knit.1 magazine every couple of months in my mailbox, I decided to finally make a pattern from it. I generally look through it, love the designs and then get busy with something else and don't really ever get a chance to make any of their patterns. For these mitts, I chose the "Wristers" from their most recent issue.

Here are the skeins I received yesterday:They are gorgeous and I already know what I want to use parts of them for :)

In other knitting news, a fellow student recently requested a Dr. Who scarf. You know, the long, wide, colorful garter stitch ones? So I took the excuse to go yarn shopping and started on the scarf this morning, its going to be a slow project, but he gave me till the fall to complete it since it isn't going to be cold for a while, so that will work out nicely.