I'm happy with the way it turned out, especially when considering that I knit it with inexpensive yarn (Lion Cotton-Ease). It looks very cute on Paige, and the patterns was so simple (I guess that's why they call it Knitting Pure and Simple) that I breezed right through it joyfully.
But these Mittens. I'm way too picky of a person to be knitting on the fly. I keep changing my mind as I go and ripping back and ripping and ripping. The first cast on I began working in a K2 P2 ribbing for the cuff and then I decided I didn't like it and I ripped that back. The next was a K4 P1 ribbing and it took me almost no time to decide that I didn't like that one either. Rip. This was try #3
It was okay. I worked the cuff in K2 P1 ribbing (aha! just right- for me, anyways) than began working the color pattern, which was coming along okay until I realized that it was too tight and these mittens, if finished as such, would be hand-numbing, tourniquet-style mittens. Rip. So I went up a needle size and ended up flipping the colors from the way I did them before, and this is all I've got at the moment.
I'm not unhappy. They fit on my hands comfortably now, and I think I like the light Celtic knot on top of the dark background better than the reverse. The Celtic knot chart came from a pattern I found online ages ago, called 'Matt's Socks' designed (I believe) by a Catherine Devine which I haven't been able to find again. I've looked quite a bit and it seems to be a ghost now. I haven't knit the socks yet, but I thought that little design would look good on the back of some mittens.
Tomorrow, I think I'm going to need a break from the mittens. I'm going to turn my attention to my spinning wheel and make some more of this...
I honestly don't remember what this is. I was not paying close attention when I bought it. Whatever it is, it's making a nice Navajo-plied, worsted weight yarn. I'm enjoying spinning it, though I don't know what it's going to become when it's done.
Hopefully, tomorrow I'll get to spin while watching the snow fall outside.
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Yay!! The sweater is done!!! I'll have to get the pattern from you so I can do one for Genevieve. I did finish the hat a couple days ago. I finished the head part the next day after I saw you. Then I made the pompom and the second try didn't come undone as well as one ear flap. Which by the way I found to be difficult since I could not figure out how to pick up stitches, but I figured it out, so I guess I'll have to post the pics for you to see.
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