Adventures with sticks and string.
Since we last spoke, I completed my second Wanda mitten. As you can see, they are mirror image of each other. And there a couple of little fishies on the thumb. To recap, I used The Loopy Ewe Solid Series in the “Tangerine” and “Caribbean” colorways and my ubiquitous size 2 (2.75mm) needle. Because you [...]
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Thank you for all your kind and supportive-of-long-hair comments on my last post. I wasn’t fishing for compliments — honest! Just attempting a preemptive strike to avoid the inevitable emails criticizing my personal style and hair choices. And for the most part, it worked. Okay, first of all, the Knittens pattern has been finalized, and [...]
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The Knittens are done — see? To recap, these were knit from Madelinetosh Tosh Sock, using the Celadon and Turquoise colorways. The pair took approximately 150 yards of each color, so one can easily get two pairs of mittens out of these two skeins. Note to myself: store all leftover MadTosh mitten yarn in a [...]
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My slouchy hat is done. I have to tell you, the whole time I was knitting this hat, I had Rick James’ “Super Freak” running through my head, except that my version went like this: It’s a super slouch, a super slouch, It’s super slouchy! (My apologies for the ear-worm.) So I will of course [...]
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Look! I have another mitten on the needles. Actually, this is the second mitten of the latest pair. Here is its mate: And the palm: I am calling this design “Knittens.” Rather a twee name, don’t you think? But I could not help myself. I am once again using Madelinetosh Tosh Sock, this time in [...]
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The Morbid Mittens are done: To recap, I knit these from Madelinetosh Tosh Sock in the “Composition Book Grey” and “Tart” colorway, on U.S. size 2 (2.75mm) needles. The mittens took about 1/3 of a skein of each color, that is, approximately 135 yards of each color. Pattern coming soon. Nicole asked a great question [...]
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The cuff I showed you in the last post is, as you no doubt figured out, a mitten cuff. The mitten is being knit from Madelinetosh Tosh Sock in the “Tart” and “Composition Book Grey” colorways on a U.S. size 2 (2.75mm) needle. Here’s the first mitten, completed: As you can see (if you click [...]
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I think this is the fastest I’ve ever knit a pair of mittens: I started my cabled mittens for my Camp Loopy project at about 8:00pm Saturday night and finished them almost exactly 24 hours later: Sunday night at 8:00pm! These mittens are my own design, knit from Madelinetosh Tosh DK in the “Kelp” colorway [...]
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