Mittens
Listening to the KnitPick’s podcast yesterday gave me the idea to turn my mind to a simple project to do during the warm months ahead in order to get ready for winter…Mittens!
They are fun and easy and quicker than socks (if you’re the impatient type)!
Here’s a whole bunch of patterns to peruse at your leisure.
In researching mittens I found some very complicated and some extremelyeasy. The easiest and most popular I found were the Fetching fingerless mittens.
Mittens can be made from any yarn you have from fingering to worsted and even a nice wool blend yarn.
Now if you’re like me, you like to have a few different projects going, not because of attention deficit disorder, but because you’re not always able to work on your lace shawl or Aran sweater or that baby afghan with all those cables. You need something else to work on when waiting at appointments or when you get just a little window of time and don’t want to just sit and do nothing at all. And that’s why mittens are so great and can be a nice change from socks for these easy-to-knit-anywhere type projects.
I recently spun some sport weight Merino yarn and now I know just what to do with it.. make mittens!
So what other winter projects are you going to work up during the swealtering months ahead?
Happy Knitting!!
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I really love mittens, but like socks, I tend to get rebellious about making things that have to match. So I often made crazy mittens, same pattern, different but related colors, to keep my interest. I think the black and white is really striking. I love that tiny-gauge Nordic look.
I personally need to do somwthing with the hogshead of handpainted fingering weight yarn I’ve been creating the past couple of month. One idea is more lined mittens, plain wool outside, then spaced dyed silk and wool inside, a soft and pretty surprise . . .
Nice job on the spinning, too.