Annual warm clothing drive time here.
Still obsessed with helical stripes, as you can see. And I thought it would be fun to make the mittens asymmetrical. Set is toddler/pre-school sized.
This hat is much smaller than the one above, more like infant sized. No mittens for this one. (I hate knitting thumbs, especially tiny ones. If I ever knit miniature mitten ornaments you will know I have gone completely round the bend.)
Finally took a photo of this finished hat. It will go to the clothing drive, too.
I also made a pair of fingerless gloves for my amputee friend. She can wear them when she goes outside in her wheelchair for a cigarette. Smoke breaks are cold here in Wisconsin winters.
See the faint line around the right one above the gusset? That is a turning row; left one shows the cuff turned back. I am soooo impressed with the cleverness of me.
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I finished The Absent One by Jussi Adler-Olsen; two stars. I figured out why it was taking me so long to read it: it dragged for me. Plus, there were occasional sentences or paragraphs that fell like clunkers in my head, which I blame on the translation. Annoying.
Currently reading The Passage by Justin Cronin. It seems fairly gripping, which is good because it is >700 pages long. I think I may need to step up my reading, though — an hour a night is not gonna cut it. On the down side, it turns out that it is first book in a trilogy. Not sure if I want to commit to that. If this one drags at all, I am outta there.
In my ears: I started Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate. This was actually a bit of a mistake; I wanted to get Celeste Ng’s previous book, the one before Little Fires Everywhere, but after reading the description I realized that I had read it a couple years ago. So I guess I clicked on this one because it was recommended. Hard to say, really. Anyhow, it seems okay after the first hour.
Go check out more Unraveled posts over at Kat’s place.
kmkat & her kneedles 
What lovely, warm things you’ve knit! They will be much appreciated on these cold winter days. XO
I can vouch for the loveliness of those fingerless glove. My 86 year old mom wears hers all the time.
Happy knits!
If you ever want to knit ornament mittens – you can just use i-cord for the thumbs… 8)
I’m with you on knitted miniature mitten ornaments! I tried it once… didn’t go well…
So . . . this is a place where I don’t mention the five pairs of miniature mittens I’ve knitted since August?
Beautiful and warm knitting!
Traditionally, baby mittens don’t have thumbs. They are called “punkinseeds” because they are seed-shaped. The solution for small children is the sock-puppet shape, where the “thumb” is just as big as the finger part; much easier for parents and child, though a tad fiddly to knit in its own way. Where I used to fall down was in the sizing – I always made the whole mitten too big.
“Before We Were Yours” is on my to-read shelf.
Bet your amputee friend will TOTALLY Appreciate those mitts during our Wisconsin snows and winds. I feel sorry for friends who cannot stop smoking. My mom tried and tried and just couldn’t
As her alzheimers progressed, she forgot that she smoked….
I didnt think that was possible