MINE, Dammit!

Gentle Readers may not recall that the entire Fancy Mitten Project started when I wanted a pair. I know the Ducklings certainly don't.

I do.






After much thought and contemplation I found my mitten pattern. Astute historians will recognize an enlarged copy of a page from this book and also the oldest known knitted pattern: gold and maroon silk socks at some amazingly fine gauge.

My new mittens: See the Easter egg yarn? I'll use that with natural undyed.

The final pattern:

To reward myself for the rest of the weekend just past (visiting relative, big English project) I ordered new needles. Fourteen of them.

Oh and also? I give you the first of the Buu-Mitts in vivo:

The second isn't quite to the thumb-line yet.


(Yes that wretched photo was the best of a much larger lot...'s'what I get for attempting to show-but-not-show a child.)