Knitting Update

So far I fail at daily blogging in February. 

Today I went outside and got some pictures of my recent and not so recent warm knitwear in the snow. These are things I made by hand and use every day, and I am particularly proud of them.
Remember these? My favorite gloves and I just celebrated our one year anniversary. They're getting an upgrade soon. 

These are my selbuvotter mittens. I expect I will write a full blog post on them soon. 

 In the sub arctic cold of the last two weeks, I realized my current knitwear did not do enough to keep my face warm. (Read: I hadn't felt my face in two weeks) So I decided to take some of my horded Malabrigo Worsted yarn and make a beautiful deep purple cowl. It keeps the bite of wind off my face, and makes me look like a bank robber. Win-win.
This yarn is based on the painting "The Night Cafe" by Vincent Van Gogh.

These are the first part of that malabrigo yarn, designed to keep my hands warm in the coldest of temperatures.
 Notes: Malabrigo is a brand of yarn.

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