Yay! They're done!

[elizabeth_mn]

I have achieved mittens!



After all these years, I've finally managed to make a pair of mittens! Yay, my first mittens!

It's very odd, somewhere in the process of my last few knitted articles, I've actually started to enjoy knitting. I never thought that would happen! I've always considered knitting to be a means to an end: I need a hat, so I had better knit one. But I've really been enjoying the process this time. So much that after I finished these, I started another pair of mittens for my honeybunny, in bright red wool.

AND, I've also decided I'm going to start a sweater. It's pretty scary to me, but I bought a pattern and yarn and when I am done with the HB's red mittens, I'm going to start swatching.

This is the pattern I'm using.  It's a bolero, so it won't take quite as long as a full sweater, and it's bulky weight, too.  I went to my new favorite fiber shop, 3 Kittens, and bought yarn yesterday.

I think I've decided that I am a 'real' knitter now.  Ha!

Comments

[ancient-days.livejournal.com]

Nice mittenage! I've fiddled with dpns now and again, but I always feel like I've got a Teflon porcupine in my hands. I suppose that if I actually got further than a few rows in, the handling would get easier. I'm going to have to bite the bullet sometime if I ever want to make any mittens or gloves. Right now I'm working on a scarf for someone's Christmas present on good old fashioned straight needles.



(By the way, "Teflon Porcupine" would be a great band name - assuming DuPont didn't get all persnickety about the trademark thing.)

[ashamanja-babu.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

'Teflon porcupine' - that's hilarious! Working with dpns does get easier after you've done 4 or 5 rows, though. But you can knit mittens flat, then seam them if you are really against dpns.