No Wool For You

I always got a kick out of when the Soup Nazi was on Seinfeld. We occasionally work in the "No ____ for you!" into our conversations. I thought these would be cute fingerless mitts to try, but since I don't have a recipient in mind, I always knit them up in acrylic. That way I know they will not need special treatment if given to someone who forgets that kind of stuff. The pattern is called "Lofty Wool Cable Mittens" and I usually change up the name of my project when uploading it to Ravelry. I try to make a play on the name in some way. So you can kinda see where this name was coming from. Anyway...I did my usual modifications to change them from mittens to fingerless mitts. If I make them again I will probably not do the increases in the palm area as they are a bit looser than I like. The rolled hem at the wrist is a different twist on the usual ribbing and I like that bit of difference.

This will be my last pair of mitts for NaKniMitMo. I was able to crank out 4 pair.

Gracious Me...They're Finished

The Gracious Me mitts are finally finished. It seemed to take forever. I knew we would receive a new "clue" each week, but I didn't realize how it would draggg this thing out. I first blogged about them when I wrote about NaKniMitMo. I like the mitts and did a few modifications to suit me needs. I can see me making these again.

Riding the Zephyr

I came across this pattern called, "Zephyr Fingerless Mitts. I love how there is a little bit of cable and I thought it would look good in one of my stripey yarns. The word “Zephyr” has two meanings if you have been in the New Orleans area for a while. A long time ago, there used to be an amusement park called Pontchartrain Beach next to the lake. The roller coaster was this wild wooden coaster called “The Zephyr”. It was so much fun. Secondly, the "New Orleans Zephyr"s is the name of the minor league team here (probably named after the roller coaster). So these mitts became "Riding the Zephyr". I might need to keep these for myself...

NaKniMitMo

I know there are other "months" out there where people participate in doing something during that month. November is NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) where people get their thoughts together and begin writing a novel. Cara participated this year with several of her friends. It was so fun to hear how excited she was to sit down at the computer and write a story. As I was piddling around reading the message boards on Ravelry, I found out that this month is NaKniMitMo or National Knitting Mittens Month. How could I have not known this? Well, you know me. If knittin' is involved, I am interested. I am participating in a fingerless mitts mystery KAL (knit a long) this month, so I can tag those as NaKniMitMo too. I started another pair of fingerless mitts last night. It is a new pattern I have not tried yet and I like how they are coming out so far. So far, I am liking NaKniMitMo a lot!

Edited to add on 1-27-11- I am also participating in 11 fingerless mitts in 2011. Woo Hoo!