I remain convinced that these make excellent bookmarks. I mean, the cord between them was clearly meant for just such service. ⁠ ⁠ The fact that this means I can sit there and slip them on and off my fingertips while I read is just an added bonus. I totally didn't decide to use them as a bookmark just so I could play with them. No of course not. That would be silly. I'd never do such a thing...⁠ ⁠ They're called Tethered and they're out on both ravelry and payhip now!

Every time it snows, I think "oh, I should go outside and take some pictures." And then when I do I quickly realize: it's cold and I am in my pajamas it's actually weirdly hard to take pictures of tiny things in snow and have them look cute because mostly snow is just white and flat and kinda boring it's still cold and I am still in my pajamas and am I still outside in the snow taking boring pictures while shivering And then I come inside and kick the snow off my slippers and wander towards the nearest teapot [...]

So when I say Block All The Things...I do indeed mean All The Things. Even the tiny ones!⁠ Now, is this strictly necessary? I mean literally nothing about two inch tall mittens is at all necessary, so obviously not.⁠ But does it make them look better? Yup. It really does. Especially on teeny tiny things, the little irregularities from one stitch to the next that just happen with everyone's knitting can really stand out. And blocking smooths those right out.⁠ Plus it takes all of 60 seconds (hold them in your hand under the faucet, squeeze them a couple times [...]

Unblocked (yes, I will block them, yes, it will make a difference in how they look, yes, even for something so tiny), but done enough to confirm that they are, indeed, adorable. Though not as adorable as they'll be after a brief soak and priming session.

Hold up...first we need a second mitten... Again, these are tiny. Not 'small child' tiny. Oh no. These are 'fits on my smallest finger' tiny. 'I'm going to block them on the handle of a butter knife' tiny. 'I'm weirdly tempted to see if I can fit a tube of lip balm inside the two of them end to end, but I don't think there's actually room' tiny. They are itty bitty and serve no function at all. Yet I find them somehow enchanting. There's no accounting for taste.

I mean of course we need a mitten strap...otherwise it would be far too easy to lose the absurdly small mitten. You've got to be practical about these things you know. Yup. That's it. Practicality is the key here. Uh huh. Carry on.

Many lovely people who like the fingerless mitts but prefer mittens: "You should knit mittens!" Me, who knows my own baser tendencies when it comes to heeding the letter vs spirit of a request: "Oh, maybe some day..." I cannot over emphasize how tiny this is. Like an inch across, maybe two inches tall. I can get my pinky finger in there, but only if I give it a little wiggle.