So, yeah, I didn't have enough yarn to do two mittens out of the birthday yarn. That's because I made a cover for my Kindle Fire (favorite birthday present!) with the birthday yarn first. See how gorgeous that turned out? I couldn't believe how wonderful the birthday yarn is (considering I spun the wool for it and it was my first time doing triple ply on the spinning wheel).
I started with this Polwarth roving, which reminded me of the colors of South Dakota in the summertime:
I love how the golden brown graduates to the aqua and green so subtly. I knit the Kindle Cover all in one piece, knit in the round, and grafted the bottom before adding the crochet tie.
Then I decided to do mittens with the leftover yarn, which was not enough yarn. It was okay, though, because I had some Brooklyn Tweed Shelter in a color called "Button Jar" that was almost the same weight as the birthday yarn. What I love about these mittens is that there are subtle color changes in the yarn, so they are not just solid green and solid aqua, but full of lighter and darker greens, yellows, golds, blues, even a little bit of tan. Not sure it comes across in the photo, but they're lovely (and warm!). Just in time, too, because this is my smoking area at work:
It's not the first snow of the season, but it's the first snow that's stuck. And it's 9 below today. I'm wearing a
hand knit cardigan, the new mittens over my
fingerless gloves (smoker trick), and
a scarf I made from some more of the hand spun done over the summer. Oh, and hand knit socks. Always hand knit socks. I feel so damn prepared for winter!
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