When I did more knitting I was more active on Ravelry, and I was careful about recording the details of my projects. Last weekend I decided to update my Ravelry notebook for the first time in a while, and I thought I was all caught up. Only later did I remember the project I started in January and never logged: a pair of mittens for Stella.
I finished the body of the first mitten back in the winter and stuffed it into a bag, where it sat neglected for a long time. I finally pulled it out again this week and closed up the top.
The pattern calls for an afterthought thumb with more small elephants, and I hadn't been looking forward to knitting it. But I pulled my socks up and got down to it, and now the left mitten has a thumb and everything.
As always with colorwork, it will look neater after I give it a bath.
Whenever I knit big motifs, it feels like a paint-by-numbers project. This is true even of patterns that I created myself, back in the days when my kids asked me for dragon knitwear. The fun part of stranded colorwork is getting into a groove, and cranking out rounds with a easy-to-memorize flow. There's nothing easy to memorize about this pattern.
The finished mitten has a pleasing weight to it, because it's worsted yarn on size 3 needles. This means they will keep Stella's hands warmer next winter, but it's kind of annoying to knit this yarn at this gauge. All in all, it's one of those projects where I think I will enjoy the product much more than the process.
I cast on the right mitten this morning, and got halfway through the picot cuff before I stopped to go climbing with Pete. We shall how long it takes me to finish mitten #2.
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