Some friends asked me to make them mittens a couple of weeks ago. So we went back and forth about what they wanted and what I thought I was capable of. Joe picked some fairly simple knitted mittens that I thought I could just about manage. Turns out I can knit a mitten in a day, even with back-to-back migraines trying to keep me down! Who would have thought.
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| And they're fancy, with a folding cuff. Joe is color blind so he wanted black. I thought that was boring so made the cuff a light green. He'll never know the difference. |
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| Because I don't knit that often I had no idea you could create a thumb just by adding stitches, but you can, and it's like magic. |
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| But that doesn't mean I wasn't totally intimidated by the thumbs and left them until the last minute. Then after some YouTube surfing, I figured it out. |
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| Putting 12 stitches on three needles is kind of an ungainly mess, but it really does produce a thumb. |
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| Ta-da! Some straightforward buttons, and a single crochet edging around the cuff to finish them off. I have enough yarn left over to do another pair with the colors reversed. Those should look nice as well. |
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| Should be nice and toasty. Now if the stupid weather would drop down out of the 60s, that would be nice. |
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| Ilana wanted fingerless gloves, and now I'm feeling cocky, so I'm knitting them on size 1 needles and also included beading. |
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| Because it means I get to do my favorite thing, which is work from CHARTS. Woo! |
2 comments:
.....and for my next trick.....you are amazing, woman. Yeah, the second pair, beading AND cabling, looks like! I'm on a couple of quilt projects now that need to get done, then I'll get back to knitting. And updating the blog. Who needs to vacuum? :)
So sweet are those mittens! I have been doing a lot of knitting also....a wool hat for hubby, two skater beanies for my son, sock monkey wool hand warmers and mohair scarf for one daughter, a fuzzy mohair scarf for the other, a pair of wool socks for my Mom, and finally for me: a gorgeous superwash fingering wool lace scarf for me...complete with beads :) Guess we are on the same wave-length!
what's even cooler: my capcha word for this post: lacienew Lacie and new!!!
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