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.