Once you've passed the turkey croquettes mark, you know that

Thanksgiving is officially over.  Soup is tonight's final installment in the turkey marathon, and the dishes are all washed, finally.  It takes me a few days to face down my great-grandmother's china and the crystal, so it's not until they are polished and zippered up in their storage bags that order is restored and the kitchen counters are mine again. Note to self: next year, we're eating off stuff that goes in the dishwasher.

All the knitting gets swept into drawers and bags for the duration, so only now am I getting back to the wool.  I finished the twining roots mittens.

I really like how the cables hug my fingers.  They are a cozy pair.
Now I'm onto Kate's revised floral mittens, (the plum colour is Cascade 220 #8885):

And I threw some wool on the wheel for mittens.  Just a chubby two-ply out of some Lincoln Romney Columbian X I got from Linda Whiting. I'm going for rustic with this.  It's a long wool with a lot of character, and the colour saturation is fantastic.  I'm hoping the mittens I get out of it scream homespun.   I am going for the scream factor, you will recall.

Comments

[sunflowerfairy]

I'm soooo going to copy these mittens. I **love** them. :)

[PumpkinMama]

You already know I love the red mitts. But now I'm lusting after that purple shade you're using for Kate's - what is it?

[Danielle]

If all of your mittens go missing in the night, don't come looking at me. Nope, I will have had nothing to do with any missing mittens. Nosiree Bob, I'm no mitten snatcher. But, if I was, I'd certainly be stealing all of your mittens. I've already stirred the stash a bit to see what surfaces for Kate's mittens. Love them! (I just need some white ... I seem to have no light colored wools right now...)

[Amy]

That organge on the wheel is awesome.

[Kathy]

Scream, it is. I'm also going to spin up some yarn for mittens. Mittens are the new socks, you know!

[Lucia]

Having been privileged to try on those mittens, I can testify to their coziness. No, I haven't ordered the books yet, but I'm working up to it.

That yarn does look pretty rustic -- it's the first thing I've ever seen you spin that wasn't perfectly smooth and even. That's a compliment, you understand. I've never been perfectly smooth or even myself, and I prefer to think of it as character.

[sara l]

pretty, pretty and soon to be prettiest.

[Kim]

Those mittens are beautiful as are Kate's!

[Laurie]

Those mittens scream ETHERKNITTER, KNIT ME!

I like the idea of rustic handspun for rustic handspun FOs.

[Ruth]

Love the red mittens. Will you be publishing the pattern?

[sunflowerfairy]

OOOHH!! I didn't even think of stealing them...you better watch that girl Danielle. lol

And where did you say you lived again?

[Tonia]

The mittens turned out wonderful! What a great pattern.

Oooo the deep purple in the socks is so pretty.

The hand spun looks very nice. I hope it turns out the way that you want it to.

[Juno]

I used the everyday china and it was fantastic. Spode shmode. LOVE the mittens. Genius.

[Manise]

You already know my love of your red mittens! Perfect shape and feel. Love your handspun.

[Susan]

Are the red mittens your own pattern? Because wow, I'd like to make those.

And that purple is just stunning.

[Deborah C.]

The red mittens are awesome. Pattern, pretty please? The Mister was absolutely right.

[Kris]

I love the mittens. The cables are fantastic. Awesome.

[denny (now wants blue swearter) mcmillan]

I have already spun the yarn and the mittens are almost done. I'm up here in the cold land of no Thanksgiving holiday to harsh on my mellow Xmas knitting.Mittens are for family,(so they can wait) now it's time for teacher knitting. ON OUR MARKS ..... GET READY...... KNIT EVERYONE!!!
Oh nice mittens there cupcake. Keep going. love your dennyx0x0x0

[denny (now wants blue swearter) mcmillan]

I have already spun the yarn and the mittens are almost done. I'm up here in the cold land of no Thanksgiving holiday to harsh on my mellow Xmas knitting.Mittens are for family,(so they can wait) now it's time for teacher knitting. ON OUR MARKS ..... GET READY...... KNIT EVERYONE!!!
Oh nice mittens there cupcake. Keep going. love your dennyx0x0x0

[kelli ann]

cable mittens are gorGEOUS!

[Beth S.]

Those mittens are just too cool. I agree that your should try to publish them! :-)

And hooray for "rustic" handspun! I'm working on some of that myself, and it's harder to do than it appears.

[Marcy]

Want. Want red mittenz. WANT!

[CateK]

I'm knitting up my first pair of mittens as we speak (or at least in between working the mouse and typing). I really like these better than knitting socks. For some reason, socks seem to take me forever but in two days I've knitted one and a half mittens. I can see a new knitting binge coming...