A couple of projects to share….

Warm hands must be on my mind of late. The gray felted mittens will find their way into a charity box eventually. They are 7 inches in length, not sure what age that will fit, but hopefully some little girl will enjoy them. It was the first time I had ever worked with the “fun fur” and it was indeed great fun. I also have some red….so there will be more mittens made soon.

The fingerless mitts are my new reading companion on chilly mornings - my favorite time to read. The book “Stern Men” was a good read, too…btw. Hope everyone had a great Holiday season and my wish for you is a very prosperous and content 2008

KathyInIowa

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SIL’s Fingerless Mitts

My SIL is a photographer and was complaining to me that her hands get cold during this time of year while she’s taking outdoor photographs.  I thought I would design and whip her up a little pair of fingerless gloves to keep her hands toasty.  These were made from Artyarns Supermerino.

Some finished things……

Mittens for a swap -unblocked at the time of photo

This pic is blurry - I promise once they are blocked I will take better pix.

made with Crystal Palace Taos,  black GGH washable merino and black Mission Falls (the Mission Falls is a heavier yarn, so that’s up above the thumb on both mittens.  Pattern is Bird in Hand by Kate Gilbert.

And 3 pair for the Soaring Eagles project

Also used Sivia Harding’s mitten pattern mostly.   The blue green variegated pair in the middle is an all-rib mitten; I like to do that when I am unsure of sizing.

Mittens for Mom

So this year, my Mom requested mittens instead of socks for her holidays.  Her birthday is also in December.

Other than one pair of fingerless mitts I sent, the rest were mittens.

These are Selbuvotter made out of Dale of Norway Falk.

These are just a plain pair with some stylized embroidery.  I was thinking these woud be Peekaboo mittens, but I didn’t like how they worked, so I frogged and just did some plain ones.  Made out of Lambs Pride Worsted.

These are the Cozy Cable mitts out of handspun.  This pattern has an error in it.  It was reported on Ravelry and hopefully it’s fixed now.

Happy Knitting -

~ Madame Purl

Soaring Eagles Mittens!

I think Sandy needs her sleep! Here’s two pair for the Soaring Eagles Project.

These are Child’s Mittens, a free pattern by Sivia Harding (!), worked in Mission Falls 1824 Wool, colorways 21 Denim and 26 Zinnia.

You with me?

“
The sky is blue and so am I.
I happened to read Norma’s post yesterday about mittens. Not just any mittens, but the Soaring Eagles Project mittens. (click here to read about it). I went over to read up on the specifics and then I couldn’t sleep last night. I keep thinking of kids with no mittens. How can I let this happen?
So, I’m here to beg you to knit mittens along with me. If we all knit one pair of mittens, that makes a lot of warm hands this winter for those kids.
Imagine, here I am on the comment drought day of Saturday begging your help.
Here’s the thing. If you knit at least one pair of mittens for the Soaring Eagle Project by December 17th and get them into the mail, I will enter your name into a drawing. The winner of that drawing will get a handknit pair of mittens, knit by me after the New Year. If you knit more than one pair, you will have your name put into the drawing as many times as you finish mittens.
There is not much time, but these are kid sized mittens.WE can do this.
I’m getting started right now.
You with me?

(double posted to my blog )

Pretty mittens to make

I just cannot resist posting 2 more links to wonderful mittens:

Wonderful Kate Gilbert mittens

and

Finnish mitten kits with naturally dyed yarn

And for those of you who are crazy for another mitten swap,  the No More Humdrum Mitten swap is going into its second round and you can sign up now (the deadline is “as soon as you can”; Jan. 12th is when partners will be matched).

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.

I finished these a couple of weeks ago for a swap….

Y’all have probably already seen them already, but just in case you haven’t:

Made out of Rowan 4 ply, inspired by a Dale of Norway kids’ sweater pattern.  Colors are not quite accurate in the pictures; the colors are more golden or autumn-y in real life.

I hope you like them!

First Christmas gift finished….

is the first pair of glittens I have made for the season. These are made from Cascade 220 Superwash in “Manly” colors. Hope they fit. There are “how to” photos (Scroll down to Sept 29th post) on my blog, and I hope to write up a recipe for these in the near future. (Free of course)