Mooting Mittens
Thursday 2nd December 2010
My oldest daughter has just started at university. I’d like to say that I designed and knitted her a snugly jacket or sweater to keep her warm and cosy on those long walks between her flat and the Exeter night life. A really unique garment, that would also link her, emotionally, with home….
….and you’re back in the room. Nah. Much as I’d
like to have done that, one, I doubt she’d wear it. Two, if she did, and ever washed it herself, there might be a heart breaking knitting-laundry related incident. Three, in real life (mine anyway), time just whizzes past and I know I’d never get it done, pressed, sewn up and all that malarkey, before she graduates.
No, I am an accessories girl. Fast, fun, wearable and most of all, do-able. So I am designing and knitting her a pair of mitts. She loves gloves and mittens, I know she’ll wear them, and I love knitting them. We both love the pink, so they’re pink, two pinks to be exact.
I am currently obsessed with bobbles, by the way. The knitted sort. Take a peak at my initial drawing for the mitts and try to overlook the weird tubey-thing I have depicted as the mitt. It will be fine! See the many lovely bobbles I have drawn? I am aware that they look like a bunch of balloons, yes, but thanks anyway. These bobbles will be knitted at the wrist and finger openings of the mitts. But the mitts will be knitted in the round (on 4 double pointed needles or if you prefer, one or two circulars). So we need easy bobbles…and I am working on this right now. To compensate for any bobbling-anxiety, the mitts will be uber-easy in all other ways: ribbed, big stripes, and no gusset at the thumb. Gusset, by the way, is the word of the day.
Kidsilk Haze bobbles in many colours will be simply lovely. Apart from the improbable quantity of oddments of Kidsilk Haze in my house/office/workroom/sitting room that needs to be used up, the many shades will both tone and clash beautifully with the 4 ply woollen yarns I have chosen for the main mitt.
So anyway, this is as far as I have got with the Mooting Mitts. Check back soon for an up-date when I confidently predict that some bobbles will have appeared.
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