Blog entries tagged Mittens

Easter Weekend

Shelley — Fri, 22 Apr 2016 03:17:05 +0100

Ten minutes ago they looked like this:

If they dry by tomorrow morning (which is actual possible considering I rolled them in two different towels and the humidity is pretty low) I wil...

Fiddlehead Update #1

Shelley — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:23:23 +0100

I realized part way through this week that we are now more than halfway through the month and I am much less than half way through my fiddlehead mittens. I went to knitting on Monday night and discovered I hadn't worked on my mittens once since last week. I worked all the way through the purple section while I was there and took advantage of some sleeping kittens time to get i...

Knitting Along with Tanis

Shelley — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:14:31 +0100

There is a Tanis Fiber Arts knit-a-long going on right now and I'm taking part. I'm in the Yellow Label group working with Tanis's lovely DK weight yarn and the project I picked was my fiddlehead mittens kit. I ordered my kit way back in August when I saw that Tanis was discontinuing them and was waiting for a good time to start working on it. The knit-a-long is especially gr...

Mitred Mittens

Shelley — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 12:57:44 +0100

Pattern: Mitred Mittens from A Knitter's Almanac by Elizabeth Zimmerman
Yarn: Cascade 220 Paints in colour 9925
Size: 48 stitches around and long enough to cover my hands
Yardage: say 60% of the skein (maybe less)
Needles: 3.25 mm

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My old mittens had been darned so many times I knew they would not make it through...

Interuption

Shelley — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 07:57:57 +0100

I'm writing a blog post about Käsespätzle but it isn't going the way I want. Fortunately while I've been staring at my computer this wonderful box arrived. This is a Fiddlehead Mittens kit from Tanis Fiber Arts. I've been wanting to order one of these for ages and when I saw they were going to be discontinued I realized it was time to act. Yarn in the mail is always fun ...

Portable Knitting

Shelley — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 10:22:17 +0100

Now that the weather is warming up I've started a pair of mittens. I've been wearing (and darning) the same pair of red mittens for three years and they're really showing it. I got his yarn (Cascade 220 paints, colour #9925) in Ottawa last February especially for making these mittens but never got around to it. When I finished my Solstice socks last weekend I realized mittens wou...

Red Possum Mittens

Shelley — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 02:47:13 +0100

Pattern: mine because the one I was originally using didn't make sense (or fit) even at gauge.
Yarn: Cherry Tree Hill Possum Worsted in Ratta (70% Merino, 30% Possum)
Yardage: most of two skeins
Needles: 3.25 mm dpn's

I've actually been wearing these mittens for a few weeks now but only attached the i-cord dummy string (dummy string out of idiot co...

Does it make you think of anything?

Shelley — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 22:24:31 +0100

I put this little green marker on my needle and it settled into the red yarn and I’m sure I could smell cloves and cinnamon. It’s hard to believe we are heading into our last week of November. I’ve got our Christmas boxes out but I don’t like to start any decorating until we are officially in December. The advent calendar will go up on Saturday (I’...

Red Swatch

Shelley — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:40:43 +0100

This is my possum yarn being swatched up for a pair of mittens. It’s so soft when it’s running through your fingers and has just a tiny bit of a halo to it once it’s knit up. It’s going to be lovely mittens.

It might seem funny to swatch for mittens. Even if my gauge is a bit off mittens are small enough that it might not matter too m...