Simple knitjutsu

Well folks, when we last met I was taking you through the painstaking task of knitting beautiful yarn. However, I am now sorry to report that the subject of my last post now lays in a frogged heap on my desk...the crazy perfectionist in me apparently escaped long enough to rip the mitten apart.

Nonetheless, my mitten rampage is still going strong. Which brings us up to date with this post. This Saturday, my sister (the youngest of us four) is having her seventeenth birthday! So I decided to make her the super cute "Give a Hoot" mittens from Kelbourne Woolens. I felt like this pattern was the perfect way to make something unique for a high school student. But at the same time, it gave me a twinge of whimsy...as I would have to sew buttons onto the eyes of the owls. So far, I have one mitten knit up, but it's a relatively quick knit, so the other will be done before I know it. I love this pattern though, it takes you through the mitten row by row, and also has a very unique thumb gusset. So now as the Beldam of these poor owls, I only really need to decide what color buttons to use for their eyes, and then I'll have more pics up Saturday.

If you've also noticed that there hasn't been a comment about how terrible the weather is lately...it's because the weather has been awesome! It's 24F right now....That's great!