Minnessota mittens

My daughter Sofia has a school friend that was wearing funny gloves that were hidden inside a mitten. They looked cool so I said to her that I would knit her some. I didn't know that they were called minnessota mittens, that took a bit of searching to find out. Anyway, I am a good and experienced knitter but those mittens took me 5 weeks to complete! I did them with double pointed needles. At one point I had 8 needles going. What took the longest time was convincing myself to knit instead of procrastinating.

Well yesterday I went to Lorna's house, who designed the scarf kit for Blue house yarns. I needed help because I wanted to use kitchener stitch to finish them. I have never been able to master kitchener stitch. I have used different instructions with and without pictures and I just couldn't do it. Well thanks to Lorna now I can. I was so happy. Thank you so much Lorna. I don't think that there is anything I can teach you but I will be kind to others and show them.


Needless to say Sofia is wearing them today to school.Here are some pics. Can you see the beautiful grafting?- Sorry about the quality of the photos, my camera is very old and I'm not good at taking pictures.

beautiful warm hands

My friend Pauline come to visit me today and we had a lovely morning chatting about crafts and dreams. Just as she left she gave me this lovely gift of fingerless mittens (gauntlets) to keep me warm. She knows how I love colour and these are just lovely. So beautiful and perfectly knitted. All of you knitters will know how special it is to receive a knitted gift. I am thrilled to bits.  I had already made a pair but on the day that I finished them, my daughter's teacher broke her wrist and so I gave them to her.

Beginnings

This is an unexpected and new development in my life. I am writing a blog. Those of you who know me will realize why this is funny. I'm kind of allergic to computers. But... I will attempt to learn and be tolerant of this machine and hope to be able to  share my passion for crafts with anyone who might be out there reading.