The Fall of Mittens

I have been making steady progress with my mittens in the last couple of weeks. Frostrosen were nearly complete last weekend, and would have been, if not for an unfortunate setback. I have actually knit this pattern before, but somehow picking up the top stitches for the thumb didn't make sense to me this time. I didn't feel that I'd picked them up correctly, so let them drop, picked them up again and ended up completely confused. I took them to my Grandma who is a much more seasoned, expert knitter than I, and she said she thought they looked OK, that I should continue and watch for problems as I go. I'm still leary of them, so will hold off for maybe a week or so until my anxiety wanes before finishing the thumbs.



Besides my Frostrosen fiasco, I've been working steadily almost every night on the very basic pair of mittens I mentioned I was using the angora from Playing with Yarn for. They're going quickly, in spite of a few rips, and I'm finding it extremely comforting to knit such a plain, standard pattern on rainy evenings after work and homework instead having to think over color work. I have several notes on the pattern I am using, but will wait for the final post to discuss them for the sake of brevity in this post, and complete information in the final one.

My only note on my photo of this mitten is that the thumb looks extremely long and pointy, which I'm quite sure will come down at least somewhat when I actually sew that end in rather than hiding it, as it is in the photo.