more mittens in august

this is the pattern for the double knit mittens i swatched last week. right now the pattern is prettier than the mitten.

i'm making the type of thumb where stitches are picked up from waste yarn. so, there's no gusset, but there is some shaping. Meg, my the camp director's wife, is entering something in a country fair and i'm thinking about entering this or my knit vegetables.


no pictures yet, but i'm swatching the red silky yarn from the last entry. i'm also working on a pair of cabled purple/red fingerless mitts similar to the blue/green ribbed ones.

mitts in august

My alarm clock thermometer says 95 today. These are made with with the seahorse yarn I dyed last week.

Here is some more yarn to dye. I unraveled a scarf from the $2 clothing rack. It doesn't feel like 75% silk but it's pretty nice anyway. There's a lot of it - enough for a lace shawl. I think the original scarf was made with two strands of lace weight held together.


This is nautie, an ancient snail with tentacles. I'm using fingering weight instead of worsted. Almost done


I have plans for double knit mittens...maybe to make in the fall. I don't have enough patience right now.