Mitten #1 Complete
What a day for Canada yesterday! I watched while we won our first gold medal on home soil, and as I watched I knit, and knit and knit. This morning I woke up and knit some more, enjoying the relaxing Family Day holiday.
I’m pleased with the results of this wool. I think it is much happier as a mitten than it was as a sock. I think I’d have to card it a lot more, and then spin it thinner and make 2-ply yarn for socks, or use this thicker weight and knit a nice slipper pattern.
close up of braid
I used my knitting journal and charted out this pattern in it as I went along. It is great to have a paper trail now….so I can hopefully make a second one that matches. I’m going to reverse the cables and the braid design on mitten #2.
Speaking of mitten #2….If I’m going to knit one, I better get to carding and spinning more white. Thank goodness I dyed enough green to be used in both mittens, I don’t know that I could repeat that colourway.
My recipe for this lovely colour of green:
To dye 1 full bobbin of 3 ply handspun, I put it in a bowl full of water, added about 4 “glugs” of white vinegar, 1 full squeeze bottle of liquid green food colouring, and the left overs from another mostly empty bottle. To that I added 3 packets of lime koolaid, and one packet of orange koolaid that I didn’t mix in thoroughly (this leads to uneven colouring which I think worked nicely). I microwaved it for about 10 minutes total, and let it sit until the water in the bowl was clear.
I’ll write up this pattern and share it with everyone when I’m done. I’m looking for a good name though…
What would you name this mitten pattern?
Tags: dyeing, fleece, knitting, knitting olympics, kool-aid dye, mittens, ravelympics, spinning, tutorial, vancouver 2010
