Tiny and bright. Too cute for words.
Miniature version of the Pin-Striped Fingerless Mitts
For Little Nora (who will soon be two!)
I knit these little things pretty darned tight on the very skinny #0 needles… so there’s some ‘laddering’ going down the middle of the mitts. I love the affect of the variegated yarn too.
Finished.
Another two pairs of pin-striped fingerless mits !
Aren’t they lovely ?
These are for Molly & Maya, belated xmas presents.
For some reason, I can’t capture the colors very well with the camera .
These are a medium greyish slate blue with marine blue stripes . . .
And these are a deep plum with royal purple stripes . . .
I think that five pairs of pin-striped fingerless mits are enough for me for a time, but since I knit them all almost entirely while walking the mountain, I’m not sure if I might not cast on for another pair . I mean, I fear I might trip without something to knit !
🙂
But for now I’m going down off the mountain into town to ship these mits in the mail, and then feel my feathers fluff up with a sense of satisfaction of a job done ! I find it difficult to believe that all the Christmas knitting is behind me now. I went for my walk this morning , and, nothing to knit while walking along ! It was surreal.
There’s somebody out there who knows these are made just for her, and who knows if she walks up through the woods soon, along with a steaming hot cup of bittersweet & spicey chocolate (with whip), these fingerless mits ~ in two shades of grey ~ will be waiting for her. 🙂
One pair of fingerless mits for Christmas for youngest niece.
I’ve been working on these, sans pattern, for about four days, while walking , standing at the stove, just ‘ about the house ‘ sort of knitting …. nothing too committed. I think I could easily knit one in a morning if I worked at it non-stop. Anyway, I’m smitten with pin-stripes !!! So easy to be ‘jogless’ too, just give the yarn a little tug when you come to switching colors, and then the single-row stripe ends stay all in line … it’s amazing… and so satisfying to have two color affects with no woven ends . I can see I’ll be knitting pin-stripes until I”m dizzy . Now for my older niece, who is on twitter a lot, calling them Twittermitts . . .
The misty color combo is lavender and grey, a soft wintery colorway for one who has been very good and hoping for her first and very own iphone from Santa in a week, and from whom I’ll anticipate a lot of action on the Twittery front.
Can you even see where the pin-stripes join? A little tug at the switching of colors is all it took, and there it is… jogless ! I am dizzy from pin-stripes !!! Will there be no stopping me? Will I be pin-striping at Christmas eve into the wee hours of the night? Will I bridge Christmas with the New Year doing nothing but more, more, more pin-striped fingerless mits , rationalizing still another recipient who might need a pair? There’s no way to really know, but to watch this space as they say.