While planning my trip to Vogue Knitting in January, I decided that I needed to wear something I’d knit other than socks. So, I pulled out some Kamelsoft yarn that I’d purchased on sale and looked at patterns on ravelry til I found one that met my requirements:

• popular (over 100 projects)
• includes cables
• fingerless

For a couple of years, I’d planned to make myself fingerless mitts prior to my next NYC trip. I love that I waited until days before I flew out to Cast On. I finished these in 3 days and for once in my life, that included weaving in the ends. The mitts were completed and I’ve enjoyed wearing them in NYC, Colorado and to hockey games.

If you fancy a pair for yourself, Trenza Mitts by Susanna IC is a free pattern on ravelry. Enjoy!

Turtle and HH (her husband) came over with their dog Penny. She and Syd got along great. I hadn’t seen Penny since the fall and Turtle told me, “She’s gotten huge.” Observe.
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It was great to see Turtle, HH, and Miss Penny AND the Stars won the hockey game that the humans attended. The funniest moment came while I was putting Syd in her crate in the laundry room. I heard, “Bogey incoming!” from TH just as Penny came running around the corner, ears flapping! She’s a cutie!
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So, there was a little more to the Lochness Mitts story than I might have first revealed. I knit the second mitt and was almost finished before I realized I’d done something really funky with the cabling very near the beginning. So funky that I started to wonder if I was getting enough water in the dry mountain air. I got some more water and stared at the mitt for a good thirty minutes analyzing my options before deciding to take a picture and then rip back to the ribbing. Instead of a lovely perfect line of interlinked rings, there was a complete perfectly round circle in the middle of a smooth interlinked chain. Think of the olympic rings if one of them was not interlocked, but was just kind of floating up against the others. In the end, all I could do was quietly watch the x-files movie and murmur “ribbit” to myself as I pulled out almost an entire mitt. How did I not notice the glaring mistake earlier? How did I somehow get SO off in my cabling? Could I have lived with it? Would the painter have noticed?

Probably. She is, after all, a rocket scientist.