Anyway, I promised my niece Sarah that I'd make her these mittens for her 24th birthday. For those of you keeping score at home that momentous occasion took place in April of 2013. Road to Hell, good intentions, etc. etc., yadda yadda.
I cast them on in March of 2013, made it as far as about here:
...and then I bailed on them. I don't know what happened. Maybe it was the rows that involve three colors at once (damned gnome beards) or maybe it was the parade of other knits that caught my eye. I'm not sure exactly what it was but as the months went by Sarah was getting less and less patient with my bullshit.
Me: ::posts picture of finished scarf::
Sarah: Hey that's nice! You know what else is nice? Mittens with gnomes on them.
Me: ::posts picture of finished sweater::
Sarah: Wow, you're really cranking out those knits! Feeling like a little mitten knittin'?
Me: ::posts picture of fourth finished sweater::
Sarah: FOR THE LOVE OF G-D, WOMAN!
So anyway, last Saturday I picked up the first mitten and by the end of the night, it was done. "Well," I thought to myself, "that was embarrassing."
I cast the second mitten on the next day and did a bit here and there during the week. Yesterday, I sat down, put on some podcasts, and finished it up. BOOM.
Gnome Mittens by Spillyjane
Needles: Knitpicks size 3, 16" circs
Yarn: Various colors of Knitpicks Palette, raided from my bestie Koren's stash
Yardage: 184, estimated by weight of 40g
Next up, I'm working on finishing up a shawl that I'm lovingly referring to as "Not Socks Then," knit from a Patons sock yarn that stubbornly refused, through three tries and four years to become socks.
(And a quick update to follow-up my last post, all buttons have been sewn on, and I've worn all the sweaters I knit this summer except for Ardys. I don't have the right outfit for that yet, or haven't figured out how to wear it or something. I need a white Oxford button down. I ended up buying new buttons for Myrna, as neither of the options I found pleased me.)
