Hawkeye mittens finished
My brother and his family are going to be visiting my parents in Iowa for Thanksgiving this year. They live in Atlanta, so you know my 3 year old nephew doesn’t have proper mittens … which means that I, as his only knitting relative, am duty-bound to wrap the boy’s hands in wool. I used the basic mitten pattern from Ann Budd’s The Knitter’s Handy Book of Patterns, and yarn from the stash, and came up with:

To a 3 year old, these will most likely be “bee mittens”. To everyone else he meets while visiting my parents they will proclaim his loyalty to the University of Iowa. Gotta start ‘em young.