After quite a few years away I have returned to knitting. I learned how to knit in high school in the 60’s when a very young English teacher both advised the cheerleaders and taught us knitting. We adored her and avidly took up needles.
I started with a sweater with cables for my brother…I still have the pattern…and continued on. I still have…and wear… the Irish cable knit sweater I knit 40 years ago! At some point I stopped knitting but recently I started again with a few small projects.
First, I knit a scarf using yarn I had given my sister as a gift, thinking she might enjoy learning how to knit…she didn’t and I inherited the small ball of yarn.
After the scarf was finished I decided to knit some headbands for my daughters using up some old yarn in the storeroom. I finished those in time for Christmas and then started some fingerless mitts for myself in order to use up another skein of yarn that I don’t even remember buying.
The problem came up on the second mitt…because of the variegated yarn it was a different color than the first….so I knit a third. Fortunately the third mitt matched the first and a later, fourth mitt matched the second. I guess what I am trying to explain is that I now have an extra pair of fingerless mitts that I would like to give to someone who would like them.
They are what I call Charlie Brown mitts because not one of the measurements is the the same…an amateur knit them and it looks it….If anyone would like a purplish pair of fingerless mitts let me know in the comments and I will draw a name on Friday, Feb 25.
Even though they acrylic rather than wool I can attest to their warmth and their convenience for taking photos.
I still have lots of left-over yarn so I will probably be knitting more…
