I’m working on Mike’s xmas gift. (um, yes. Christmas 2011.) Normally I make Mike and the little dudes xmas hats, but this year I wanted to do something a little special for him, and asked him to pick out a mitten pattern from my ravelry favorites. Clearly, he made the best and most obvious choice and picked the Octopus Mittens.
Normally I’m a terribly slow and inconsistent knitter, but these mittens are so rewarding to knit. Between the variation of the orange yarn and the neat pattern, I can’t wait to work on them and see what happens next. This photo is from this morning, and I managed to finish knitting the hand and half of the thumb in the car on my way home from Pittsburgh (oh Mike is awesome for driving) – I can’t wait to cast off and see how it looks all put together. Of course, I will still have to knit Mitten #2, but I am hopeful that it will be almost as exciting as the first one was!
Now, I know some of my new blog/twitter friends are knitters – show yourselves!
I’m blogging a photo a day for the month of February. You should too! #29in29
Those are very sweet looking mittens! I wish I could knit, I have tried and I turned out to be a knotter not a knitter.
No knitting for me, but I envy you with that talent. Those color variations look rather difficult. I love the close-to-end result though.