Mittens

There was a chill in the air when I came to work this morning. My hands were cold and I thought about mittens.

Sometimes winter catches you by surprise and you need a pair of mittens, quick! These are a perfect quick knit or a blank canvas for mitten fun!

These are the World's Simplest Mittens from Tin Can Knits. The pattern is free and you can use many different thicknesses of yarn - fingering, dk, worsted and chunky. These are sized from toddler to adult large.

The Antler Mittens is another Tin Can Knits pattern. You can purchase it on Ravelry.

These mittens are squishy and warm to keep out the cold! A bold antler cable travels from generous cuffs to fingertips. They are perfect for a winter’s night stroll or a rousing snowball fight.

These are sized from toddler to adult large and are knit in tosh chunky. We have lots of tosh chunky in stock and it is on sale. 

We have kits from Fleece Artist for the Favourite Soft Mitts. These are knit with a strand of wool and a strand of mohair held together. The yarn is hand dyed and no two pairs will be the same. I have added the kits to the website and more kits will be arriving soon.

I was busy this morning adding to the website. Thrum mitts are available online as well. These kits are from Fleece Artist - the main yarn and the roving are hand dyed.

Check out the Yarn Harlot's blog post on Thrum Mitts.

Thrum refers to a little wisp of unspun fleece or roving that is knit into the mittens every so often to create a beautiful speckled pattern.

If you want to choose your own colours, roving is on the way from Fleece Artist and should be here by the beginning of November. We will have natural, undyed roving as well as hand dyed roving. I don't know the colours - I asked them to send us 25 pretty skeins.

There are many patterns on Ravelry for Thrum Mitts. 

It's time to watch Survivor. Alex and I discuss Survivor every Thursday when she gets in to work. As she was leaving today I commented 'I wonder who is going to do something stupid and get voted out tonight' and she replied 'they are all capable of doing that'. So true!