Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Marsha's Reading Mitts

August 9: I realized that I had not yet made something for my MIL's birthday. Yikes! I think this is the perfect pattern and a good yarn to choose for her. I finished up through the thumb division on the first mitt today.

August 11: Not much knitting mojo lately. But I did finish knitting the main part of the first mitt today and sewed the top edge down. Still need to sew the bottom and add in the thumb. Then I get to do it all over again! It does look and feel really nice.

August 16: Finally finished the last bits of the first mitt and started the second one getting up to the point of dividing stitches for the thumb. Need to finish tomorrow as MIL is arriving the day after.

August 17: And done! The sewing to create the picot edging went a lot more smoothly this time (not that it was bad for the first mitt) as I feel I really got the hang of it. I usually pass up projects with picot edging because I don’t like the sewing up part, but now I think I can handle it so I can add more projects to my queue ~grin~. I’m looking forward to giving these to my MIL.



Pattern: Susie's Reading Mitts by Janelle Masters (free download on Ravelry)
Yarn: Cascade Yarns Alpaca Lana D'Oro in yellow (colorway #1105)

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