The Craft Bits: Ribby Wrist Warmers (F)

Welcome back to the Knitter's Holiday Showcase - Christmas 2008!

It's not really that bad...well yeah, it is. Today is item #4 Ribby Wrist Warmers. These were done for my sister. Mostly because these day's she's killing time working her job at a fast food restaurant waiting for someone to be so totally stunned by her resume that they come and whisk her away from the pain and misery of working at a fast food restaurant. The one thing she does most often is work the drive up window and during the 9 months of cold weather in these parts, that's a lot of time with blue frigid hands.


The pattern is from, yet again, Speed Knits by Kris Percival. There seems to be a pattern developing here...things that knit fast. The reason being that I am not the most organized person so in September when I started planning for Christmas I realized that I didn't exactly have the time or talent to knit a lot of things that take, well, time or talent. If I were going to try and knit things to give...well, they'd have to be pretty easy and pretty fast in order to have them competed by Christmas instead of by Labor Day the following year.

The pattern itself was pretty much a cinch and the end result was a rather cool waffle weave texture. The yarn is Knit Picks swish super wash charcoal (yes...more swish...it's a nice yarn!). Unfortunately considering the environment that she'll be working in, wool was not the best type of yarn to go with with the exception of how warm they'll be, but honestly there aren't many synthetic yarns that go well with the types of fats and sugars these are going to be exposed to, which is why if she wants another pair for outside of work or a replacement pair they're all hers.