Yeah, so those purple mitts were a lovely reminder of just how much I enjoy knitting mitts. And how long it had been since I knit some. And how quick they are to bang out. So I might have cast on for some more. Accidentally you understand. Totally inadvertently. These things are bound to happen. Best just to lean into it and wait for the obsession to pass. Safest for all involved.

Ok so the second mitt isn't hard. But somehow getting thumbs (as in, the teeny tiny tube that's often only about a hundred stitches and takes literally like half an hour to knit) taken care of often proves a surprisingly difficult task. What can I say. I am aware of my limitations, yet still they persist. But other than thumbs, these are all set. Any bets on how long they'll languish in this state?

I'm not sure why, but somehow knitting two mitts never feels as dire as knitting two socks. The second sock is always a slog, but the second mitt pretty much always just zooms along. Does anyone ever do the two at a time thing some folks like for socks? Full confession, I've never done two at a time for anything (I remain a diehard dpn fan and I feel like two at a time requires circ), but I admire the coordination involved. But I don't think I've ever seen anyone do mitts with it, even thought it feels like it [...]

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Me, to myself: You know, if you knit some mitts, that means you'll get to come up with a pretty thumb gusset for them. You know you like playing with pretty thumb gussets. They're almost as much fun as fancy hat crowns, and it's easier to see your hands than the top of your own head. Me, again to myself, because I mean really who else would I be having this conversation with: You make a very convincing argument. Hand me my needles. P.S. That's one of  Seven Sister Arts' Color Wheels in the background there. There's some nifty stunt [...]

It always seemed like a shame that Constellate didn't have some mitts to go with it. Luckily, this is an eminently solvable problem. ⁠ I have a special fondness for solvable problems these days, they make such a nice contrast to the other problems. So let's solve this one.

See, I told you the top was spiffy. Well, technically this isn't the top, because I ripped this out and made a tiny and completely gratuitous tweak that no one but me will likely notice or care about (I decided I wanted the space between the petal looking bits to be a smidge narrower so that they would be a tiny bit closer together and lay just a little bit flatter). But the overall vibe is very much the same and I'm rather taken with it. It's hanging out on my headform drying right now, but you'll likely be seeing [...]

Today in 'things I didn't know existed and then instantly bought when I found out about them' are curtain weights. Well, let me be more specific. I knew about the long tubes of curtain weights (the ones that look like teeny tiny strings of sausages), but not about these button looking ones. They're about an inch and a half long, weigh about as much as three quarters, and have two nice big holes you can use to sew them on to things. In my case, I'm sewing them on the bottoms of a couple of skirts that tend to go [...]

Oh. Oh my. Oh my yes. Now, this isn't blocked yet, and it will absolutely flatten out a good bit once it is. But I'm kind of loving this. I'm trying to decide if I want to make one little tweak to the decreases, and I really should decide before I block it (because ripping the floof out after it's blocked is...not ideal). But wait till you see the top, it's damn spiffy!