Sit Down for This

I’m knitting something that isn’t a toy or a CounterPain Square.

pink cuff

Be still my heart.

Ellie needs some mittens. I’m doubling Rowan Wool Cotton on US 5s (discontinued color – I had to find more on Ebay to match her existing hat) and working from the Handy Book of Patterns by Ann Budd. Great book, by the way. I’ve mentioned it before.

For mittens you need a couple stitch markers. Well, you don’t NEED them need them, but if you want to not have to pay a lot of attention, stitch markers are helpful.

fishes

If wishes were fishes…

Between the mitten leftovers and unraveling her hat, I hope to have enough yarn for a larger hat. I should have just started over with new yarn on the set – but the hat fit when I committed to the mitten yarn.

6 thoughts on “Sit Down for This

  1. Lesley

    Awesome job on the mitts!! I love that book! In fact a lady at a yarn store was knitting mitts from that book and that’s what sold it for me. I always tell to my newly knitting friends to get it. Everytime I fall back to it when I really want to knit socks. It has the best no brainer knitting book.

  2. Alyssa

    Haha, I always say “If wishes were fishes, I’d give you a sea.” I don’t see a lot of people say that, so it made me smile 🙂

  3. Ruth

    I have lots (!) of knitting books, but have never even seen that one….here’s hoping your yarn cooperates about becoming all you need it to be.

  4. Amanda Page

    I’m knee deep in fingerless mittens these days – making them for family, and a couple of commissions for people who’ve seen me making the ones for family. Good thing I checked my Amazon queue – apparently I bought that book back in 2003. Good thing I’m tidying up my craft rom and book shelves, I can go book shopping in my own house!

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