Friday Fiber Arts-Knitting Wrist Warmers

I am attempting to pick up knitting again and realizing that I need to sit back, relax and enjoy the ride. When I first started knitting I was focussing on felted purses and did not have alpacas. Now I have all this beautiful alpaca fiber and would like to make myself a few items. I found a nice EASY pattern for wrist warmers on Lion Brand Yarn Company. The pattern is Cottage Wrist Warmers. I am not using the suggested yarn obviously because I have my own. And because I am really awful about being told what to do!!
However I did check my gauge and am fine in that aspect. It is a simple lace pattern. I purl the first row and the second row is "K1 *yo, k2, sk2p, k2, yo, k1 (repeat from *). Easy right? Oh my gosh, I must have started over 10x. I start and then the phone rings and I forget where I am. Am I at k2, sk2p? Aggh! I finally learned to finish the row before setting it aside. I confess this is the second attempt to knit these wrist warmers. I tried with another yarn and was totally unsuccessful. I just could not concentrate. I pulled it out at least 4x. I set the whole project aside for a month and now I am retrying the pattern with different yarn and a new mindset. It is easy pattern yet I cannot get my mind wrapped around the project. I am not going to give up. I am determined to finish it. Even if I need to put it on a shelf for a while.


So I am sharing my first two rows today! So far so good.

And my lovely yarn was spun by my dear friend Curly Bird. She spun some of my alpaca Delphine, wool (merino, teaswater, romney), mohair, silk, desert sunset firestar, silver iris angelina. It is gorgeous. See her etsy shop for more beautifully hand spun yarns.
Check out the other awesome Friday Fiber Artists at Wonder Why Gal & Natural Suburbia.