Since I’ve been stuck working at home due to further horrible
weather, and since I’ve apparently gotten myself deep into the forest
that is knitting podcasts, I’ve decided to do like four projects at
once. This is significant, as I'm very much a monogamous knitter, generally speaking.
This, combined with me being inspired to use up my stash yarn in a
somewhat methodical fashion (because I do everything in a methodical
fashion) and start with what’s been sitting around the longest, has led
to me making mittens over the last two days. Or, rather, A mitten.
This is a modified version of a pattern that’s supposedly inspired by
Bella’s mittens in one of the Twilight movies. I wouldn’t know, as I
haven’t actually seen these films. I just thought the antler cable
pattern was pretty fantastic. The mitten is a pastel green that is far
less minty green than this. It calls for a bulky weight yarn (the
original pattern calls for about 200yds/180m, but I only had 120yds/110m
of yarn, so I shortened the cuff). I had a skein of Paton’s Beehive
Baby Chunky laying around left over from a bunting I made for a friend’s
baby (who is probably 3 years old by now, so the yarn’s been
languishing in the drawer for a while). The colourway is called “quicker
clover” whatever that means. It’s a nice light green that’s not quite
mint, so take that as you will.
I’ll post another photo whenever I have a second mitten. I want to
try to finish it by Sunday to have another thing to enter into
Ravellenic Winter Games 2014, but I’m having “second mitten syndrome” as
it were and I’m trying to muster the Can to cast on for the second one. I
worked the whole thing on DPNs and while I actually like knitting on
DPNs, unlike many, I will admit that they do have a tendency to get
horridly in the way of one another at points and aren’t the best when
you’re trying to cable front and then cable back on the same DPN.
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