All Blog Posts Tagged 'mittens' (5)

Okay, so I only made one mitten when I was snowed in at home last week, but it'… Continue

I picked up the newest copy of Vogue Knitting yesterday. Now, normally this isn’t something I would do (vogue +northern redneck just aren’t two concepts you’d normally find together) , but the cover caught my eye. Mittens!! And with our last post being all about mittens, I just had to try to put these together. Most of these mittens are more of what you’d consider in the Vogue line, with cables, intarsia and colorwork, designer stuff, everything fro… Continue

Since we just launched the brand new colors of Palette, one of my favorite yarns, I’ve been anxious to use it, but I don’t exactly want to make a big stranded sweater in the middle of summer. The solution: colorful mittens & gloves. Robin Melanson’s Knitting New Mittens & Gloves has quite a few great colorwork designs… Continue

Well I finished the fingerless mitts late last week. And darned if I didn't forget to take them to work. I seem to have done an extra increase round, because the second turned out (slightly) shorter than the first. It isn't too obvious, but the extra increase worked in my favor -- I ended up with 16 stitches on the thumb gusset, making K2 P2 work. With 14, the ''fit'' is better, but as I discovered, K2P2 doesn't work. So I have P4 at the end of the round (between thumb and body of glove), not ob… Continue

It is so good to see the sun, and the roses blooming like their lives depend on it (okay, for plants it's sorta true). But then, I go to work. And the air conditioning is blanketing me in brrrrr. It's right above our desk pod. It hits the top of my head, numbs my nose and lands at desktop level, on my hands. If I could put the keyboard under the desk, it might not be so bad. But by midday my joints ache and I'm pulling the sleeves of my sweater down to my knuckles. Fingerless mitts. Must… Continue