I've released a new knitting pattern – Midnight Snowfall Hat & Mittens
After I designed the ‘Midnight Snowfall Tea Cozy, I just had to use the color pattern as the main pattern for a set of hats and mittens.
To make the mittens more interesting to knit and wear, I designed them in the Norwegian style, with a smaller palm pattern, striped thumb gussets and thumbs, demarcating side stripes, and angled shaping at the tips.
Instead of the usual Norwegian-style wide patterned cuff, which wears outside one’s sweater or jacket, I used ribbing for the cuffs, as I prefer mitten cuffs to reside inside my sweater or coat. I left the hats pompom-less, but there’s no reason you can’t add them!
The pattern offers a child’s medium and a woman’s medium hat and mittens, knit in widely available Lamb’s Pride Worsted and Lanaloft Worsted. Full-size mitten charts make it easier to follow. Knit a set for someone you love this winter!
Sized to fit a medium child / medium woman.
The pattern is $6 and is available on Ravelry, Etsy, and Lovecrafts.
More Knitting in the Works
LOL, see a theme here!?
Yup, pinks and lots of them – Victorian Pink Nature Spun Worsted, and Rosado Rose and Orchard Blush Lamb's Pride Worsted. All destined to be cable sweaters. My wardrobe is seriously lacking in pink, which I want to pair with charcoal grey pants and the pink plaid Grasshoppers Janey sneakers I bought years ago
I have 3 sweaters in progress (and 2 more in the planning stages) – a stranded Norwegian Fans cardigan, a classic cable v-neck pullover in Victorian Pink Nature Spun Worsted, and a crew neck cardigan version for my granddaughter Evelyn in Orchard Blush Lamb's Pride Worsted, which she can wear with one of the hat/mitten sets I knit for her that uses that color.
I always knit sweaters from the bottom up, as it gives me plenty of time, while I'm knitting, to cogitate about details - whether I want a waist detail or something to accentuate the neckline. I rarely pre-plan a design. I design by doing. It's the same for me when weaving, cooking, or baking.
When it comes to clothing, I prefer florals and classics. Almost every summer dress I have is a floral! When it comes to sweaters, I definitely prefer cables and Fair Isles (or Norwegian and Swedish patterns).
No photos yet, though, as I'm just at the beginning of these designs.
New Movie Discoveries
I'm always scanning Prime Video, Pluto, Tubi, and sometimes Crackle, trying to find *good* movies to watch. I prefer movies and a good series over any other type of television. While knitting, I find a series is ideal to put on to listen to, as movies end too soon, then I gotta interrupt my work to try to find another one I want to watch.
It's getting harder and harder, though, as the years go by to find good stories, acting, and directing. All three are needed to make a good movie. So, I tend to re-watch things I've seen many times before, funny movies like 'Nadine' from 1987 with Jeff Bridges and Kim Basinger, or real classics like Fred & Ginger, or the Margaret Rutherford Miss Marple movies from the early '60's.
This week, though, i discovered 2 good movies – 'Flawless', with Michael Caine and Demi Moore, and 'The Courier', with Benedict Cumberbatch and Rachel Brosnahan (from Mrs. Maisel, a series I LOVE, as a fellow fast-talking and moving New Yorker!). I've liked Benedict's work since the Sherlock series. And Sir Michael Caine never seems to do poor work and I love to listen to his Cockney accent!
As for a good series I never tire of (besides Poirot) are all the John Nettles episodes of 'Midsomar Murders'. I've been knitting a lot, so I'm on my 4th trip through his 13 seasons!
May your needles fly like the wind, while enjoying something good to watch!
Dawn
