Mitten Knittin’

I have been wanting to get to these patterns inTerri Shea’s book,  SELBUVOTTER: Biography of a Knitting Traditionfor the longest time it seems.  It’s actually hard to choose one, especially since she tells you how to mix and match and adapt the patterns to different yarns – then I have WAY too many possibilities.  That situation usually ends up with me just (figuratively) spinning.

So, I did that for a while and then decided when I got yarn for it I’d just choose one that’s already in the book and do it.  This is called “NHM#3″.    It looks like rose buds and leaves to me.  Now I’m kind of wishing I’d gotten a color (like a rosy color for the design) rather than just stick with the neutrals, but there’s always next time.

Here’s the palm (click to make picture bigger):

You can see the waste yarn at the thumb opening here. It seems like it’s going to work well.  The book tells you to put these stitches onto a piece of waste yarn and then cast on the same amount and knit those.  That often ends up kind of sloppy for me, so I chose to just knit onto the waste yarn twice.

I have to wait until I’m done with the mitten to come back and pick up those stitches and take the yarn out – so the suspense continues!

This is day 3′s progress.  I only have time to knit at night during the week, so not too bad.  It’s not like anyone NEEDS these anytime soon, what with Spring springing up all around here, so there’s no great hurry, and I’m enjoying the process.

In other news – my other skein yarn for the Seaman’s scarf has arrived at my LYS.  So, I’m seeing a weekend jaunt to Sonora coming up soon, and the other half of the Seaman’s scarf.  Hopefully, the dyelots will be close enough that I won’t need to resort to my own devices to make it come out “matching.”

I have a dyepot, and I know how to use it…just sayin’.

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