More scrap busting, leftovers from my step it up hat. A nice speedy knit to break up the boredom of the big project I have on the go.
Pattern: Stay-Put baby mitts by Jillian Neary
Yarn: Lion brand woolease
Needles: 4.5mm dpns
This is the simplest of patterns but very effective, a ribbed tube, a stockinette tube and decreases to close the end. I skipped the I-cord ties and jumped straight to the k2 k2tog round on the decreases.
You may notice that there are three mittens. It is not that I know some oddly shaped small people. It is just that I had that much yarn left and I figured that mittens get lost so three gives a spare. I left out the i-cord string as for the last lot of mittens I made group wisdom said no strings for little people
There is a tiny ball of yarn left, this stuff just keeps on going! So far out of one 85g ball I have made an adult hat, a stuffed elephant and three toddler sized mittens. The scrap left is not really enough to make anything from. I will maybe have to make something stripy as I am trying to avoid leftovers.
I think three might be very handy indeed. I remember my Mom used to prowl our route back in forth to school in early spring as the snow melted, looking for the mates for all our orphaned mitts.
ReplyDeleteI hear you about using up leftovers. I've been stripe-ing as well!
Those are so tiny and sweet. Yes, LittleDog got a taste of the pork, which could create a dangerous situation since he doesn't want to leave the kitchen now...ever.
ReplyDeleteI think you're absolutely right, at some point one will go missing.
ReplyDeleteHappy birthday for 1st June!
ReplyDeleteI can totally see why people say no strings for little people but by the time they are walking about, strings on mitts is a must! ;) xx