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Wow!

our tenants’ place

went to bed last night with the snow coming down and woke up to 18″ on the ground. The menagerie looked a bit dazed and confused when I opened the back door for them to go out this morning – they mulled around a bit as though they were wondering if they should organize themselves into some sort of protest group. Then their collective bladder won out and they made the best of the situation.

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Other knitters may razzle dazzle you with their Starmore designs, Kiogu yarns, hand-dyed & spun fibers but here at PurlingSwine, we are proud to present Little Red Mittens done in Woolease! :) at long last my epic struggle is over …..

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the saga continues ….

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If you counted up the amount of stitches I have knit over the past two weeks (excluding this past weekend) I think you would have enough to make 8 mittens. Why then, do I have 1&#189? For a full and detailed report of mitten misadventures, please refer to the post of January 21st. So what more could happen? This is a legitimate question.

Today, as promised, I stayed away from the computer and got down to knitting business. I was in the middle of the second mitten at the point where the thumb gore is on a holder and I am cruising my way toward the decreases at the top. It occurs to me that I failed to read the K3 rows even part when I did mitten #1. oy vay! And it also occurs to me that in increasing to make the thumb gore I should have used a bar increase rather than the row below increase – those tiny little increase holes were starting to bug me. I don’t know when it happened, but it seems I have become quite the perfectionist So you can see how it happened that I ripped both of those mittens back and reknit them. One is completed and the other is &#189 done.

I wonder if I could get booted from the Fiber Arts & Knitting Bloggers Webring for crap like this ….