chrysanthemum cuffs

 I think I'm addicted to Norwegian style mittens. 


Had I known before how easy they are to make, I wouldn't have wasted my time with any such nonsense as socks and baby bootees... These are my true calling. These, and voyageur's toques. I'll have a picture of that blue toque posted soon, I just haven't had the chance to take one yet. It turned out amazingly, and I already have 4 orders for more... They'll just have to wait til after my chrysanthemum mittens are finished. 


The pattern is Chrysanthemums from Knitty.com The colors in these mittens were hand picked by my baby brother, and I think he did a darn good job. It's a sock weight yarn. The MC is a silvery purple heather (wool & bamboo blend from JoAnn), and the CC is black (pretty sure it's either superwash merino wool from Knit Picks, or acrylic from Gruber's Quilt Shoppe in St Cloud). I'm knitting these mittens using two Addi Turbo circs, US size 1. Bet you're surprised to see me using metal needles, huh! Usually I do prefer using bamboo, but Addi's are sooooooo slick. If I were rich I'd own all of the Addi's in the world... But alas, I am poor. College does that to a kid. Bah. 


More pics later!

norwegian-ness :)

 I started this mitten in like February, and I never got around to finishing it til now... Overall I'm happy about how it turned out, but I think for future mittens from this pattern I'd probably use larger needles. Definitely. It's just a good thing I have baby-size hands, because otherwise I'd be SOL.

The yarn is merino worsted weight from Knitpicks. I used size 3 bamboo circs. 

Starting this project up again made me really interested in colorwork, and I had so many people asking me if it was fair isle that I had to research what exactly fair isle is... It turns out that NO: this was not knitted using fair isle technique. Fair isle is where it has the same pattern on both sides of the work, but opposite colors. 


I started looking for more Norwegian mitten patterns, and I found one with a chrysanthemum pattern on the back from Knitty.com. I think that will be my next pair of mittens... Most definitely. I could use some of that fricken sweet yarn that I'm STILL waiting to come in the mail... Thanks, apartment that I lived in last year, for the excellent customer service :P ... I say that because if they had told me that they had my package when I went and asked them if they had my package last week, then I would have it by now. Since they did not, the package got sent BACK to the post office, and now I'm waiting for it to come back AGAIN. Hoping for Tuesday (*crosses fingers*).