Mary’s mittens (Nicola’s mum)
Tuesday 19th July 2011
Another ‘show and tell’ triumph! Mary, a workshop participant back in April, made these, Frost Flower mitts (yes, yes, very soon now, they will be a kit…) and I adore them!
You can see the green KSH on its own in the top layer of the flowers on the cuff and the Shimmer alone on the finger-frills – but together, look how they work and mingle! Lovely, thank you Mary. Mary is the mother of another of my star-knitters,
Nicola. Mary wishes it to be known that she has also made a lot of quilts etc as she is a fab stitcher, too, since April…
I do not know why I spend so long agonising over, thinking about, pondering –
messing about with, if I’m honest – my kits. I’d like to know why it is. Then I could avoid it. If I have a book/commission deadline, no problem, by and large. I don’t procrastinate and if I need a wee bit of extra time, it’s because of yarn/technical issues and it’s rare.
However, give me a kit for my own use and wow! I can fiddle with them for ever, re-work them, pass the patterns around to anyone who will knit them in order to test them, take them to workshops and see what folk think, come back, think some more…it’s as if I don’t want to let them go.
Weird. Any ideas what my problem is, Doctor? Seriously, do you ever have these sort of issues? Help appreciated.
However, I have finally drafted a prototype kit page and my lovely
web-wizard man is now no doubt having a lot of fun making sense of Frost Flower mittens etc…
It’s coming to this website real soon. I promise.
You can see the green KSH on its own in the top layer of the flowers on the cuff and the Shimmer alone on the finger-frills – but together, look how they work and mingle! Lovely, thank you Mary. Mary is the mother of another of my star-knitters, Nicola. Mary wishes it to be known that she has also made a lot of quilts etc as she is a fab stitcher, too, since April…
I do not know why I spend so long agonising over, thinking about, pondering – messing about with, if I’m honest – my kits. I’d like to know why it is. Then I could avoid it. If I have a book/commission deadline, no problem, by and large. I don’t procrastinate and if I need a wee bit of extra time, it’s because of yarn/technical issues and it’s rare.
However, give me a kit for my own use and wow! I can fiddle with them for ever, re-work them, pass the patterns around to anyone who will knit them in order to test them, take them to workshops and see what folk think, come back, think some more…it’s as if I don’t want to let them go.
Weird. Any ideas what my problem is, Doctor? Seriously, do you ever have these sort of issues? Help appreciated.
However, I have finally drafted a prototype kit page and my lovely web-wizard man is now no doubt having a lot of fun making sense of Frost Flower mittens etc…
It’s coming to this website real soon. I promise.
They’re lovely, magical how the colours combine…
Stop faffing woman, get the blinking kits on the website otherwise I might have to come down and sort you out! xxx
OMG Amanda, I was just thinking this lunchtime: if I faff anymore Amanda (and Jean) will have a fit! XXX
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