Vertical Double Decrease with a Twisted Stitch

That kind of sounds like a cocktail.

Anyway, one of my new patterns, Sugar Bunn, calls for the working of a vertical double decrease with a twisted stitch.
Here is a photo tutorial explaining how this is done.

Figure 1: The stitches are labeled A, B and C. B is the top stitch in the row of twisted stitches. 

Figure 2: Slip A onto cable needle as if to purl and hold in back. 

Figure 3: Slip B from left needle to right needle as if to purl

Figure 4: Place A from the cable needle onto the right hand needle.

Figure 5: Knit C.

Figure 6: Pass A and B over the stitch just knit. 

Figure 7: Done, three stitches decreased into one with the center stitch twisted. 

Two Newly Published Patterns

I just self-published two new designs up on Ravelry.

Damn it feels good.

Angora Sugar Bunn Mitts

Tompkins Square Mitts

If you want to read some interesting history about Tompkins Square, read this.

A Snails Pace is still good, as long as it's forward.

Two month since the last post.
Procrastination got the better of me.
I got my lovely friend Alyssa to take photos of the finished objects made from my designs. (We bartered mitts for photos of course.)

Here is another dish that will be served up sometime in the future.

Yum.

The purple is Imperial Yarn Columbia, it's bouncy, and soft, and tweedy.  The multi-colored yarn is Noro Aya, It's cottony, and color-saturated, and discontinued. I am designing a shawlette type wrap with heavy graphical lines.  It will include a chevron pattern and some intarsia work.

I have to mention the bowl which I just got from a friend who brought it as a gift from Uganda.  It's a lovely handwoven basket made from banana and palm fibers. Once the yarn is out of the way you will see that the bowl has a sunflower pattern.

What I'm Working on Anyway

So knitting, yeah...

I have been knitting the Rock Island Shawl by Jared Flood.

Incidentally I cannot get this song out of my head.  That's fine I really like that song.

Here's a picture of my progress so far.

The Rock Island Shawl is a mighty good shawl.

This promises to look very different after blocking than before.

I'm using two of my Fiesta dishes to help me out with this project.  The teacup holds my yarn as I am working from the outside of the center-pull ball that I wound.  The bowl in the background holds the project when I'm not working on it.  I love my Fiesta dishes, and I like to use them whenever, and for whatever possible.  

I have also been working on designing my own patterns.

Here are the ingredients to a pair of mittens that I have been busy with.

Pretty things.

The only other thing I'll say about the mittens right now is... Honeycomb Brioche.