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I finished three things this week. I’m really proud of myself. Of the three, the booties might have been the most difficult project. It was hard for me to understand what I had to do to complete the rolls and seam the back and bottom of the booties.

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I made the matching hat last month

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Success

I finished Satanski’s mittens, and am really pleased with how they came out. Mittens are great! Here’s the final product:

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And here are the mittens with the scarf that I made.

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I’ve enjoyed this yarn so much (and I still have so much left) that I’m going to make Satanski a hat, too.

Halfway home

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I finished my first mitten! I’m very proud of myself. I nearly messed up when I got to the thumb, where I didn’t pick up stitches tight enough and had left a rather noticeable hole, but I found the mistake in time to go back and fix it. This pattern is pretty much idiotproof, since I’m sure I made a bunch of boo boos that are completely invisible by this point. I love how knitting this in the round means that I get to knit the whole time (after I finish the ribbing), but that I can then turn the mitten inside out when I’m finished and see a darling knit pattern. When I finished the mitten, I picked it up to photograph it. I thought it would be fun to take pictures of the mitten at the same time as the scarf, so I finally wove in the ends on the scarf. It only took a week.

I feel like I understand mittens now, and am looking forward to starting the other hand tomorrow. Because a lot of patterns say that kid mittens can be interchangeable, I will make the next one as identical as I can to the one I finish today (might be a little better looking, now that I know what I’m doing), but the next set of mittens I do will differentiate between left and right.

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