{"id":1026,"date":"2011-05-30T10:18:33","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T14:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jorahlavin.wordpress.com\/?p=301"},"modified":"2011-05-30T10:18:33","modified_gmt":"2011-05-30T14:18:33","slug":"out-of-the-gloaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=1026","title":{"rendered":"Out of the gloaming"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am still moving along on my “11 mittens in 2011” project,\u00a0albeit\u00a0slowly. My most recent FO is a pair I’m calling “Gloaming<\/a>,*” and made from a very, very popular mitten pattern called Bella’s Mittens<\/a>. \u00a0I’m planning to send these off to the Great Frozen North of central New Hampshire.<\/p>\n

\"Bella's<\/a>
Close-up of the hand<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This pattern was easy to follow, and if you’ve done any cables at all, I think you’ll find these to be very easy. If you’ve done lots of cables, you’ll probably be able to memorize the repeat after one or two times. \u00a0I really like this project and suspect I’ll do more.<\/p>\n

\"Bella's
The pair! Proof that I finished both!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As is so often the case, I customized the thumb of the first mitten, didn’t take any notes… and couldn’t recall exactly what I’d done for the second thumb. No worries; they both seem to fit a wide variety of hands, but it would have been nice to have some notes.<\/p>\n

Here’s a final shot showing the palm.<\/p>\n

\"More<\/p>\n

*obscure joke<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am still moving along on my “11 mittens in 2011” project,\u00a0albeit\u00a0slowly. My most recent FO is a pair I’m calling “Gloaming,*” and made from a very, very popular mitten pattern called Bella’s Mittens. \u00a0I’m planning to send these off to the Great Frozen North of central New Hampshire. This pattern was easy to follow, … Continue reading “Out of the gloaming”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[85],"tags":[88,95,99,107],"class_list":["post-1026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting","tag-11mittensfor2011","tag-cables","tag-fo","tag-mittens"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgY3e-gy","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1012,"url":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=1012","url_meta":{"origin":1026,"position":0},"title":"Week One of the 11 pairs in 2011 Challenge","author":"Jorah","date":"January 1, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I know I mentioned a few days ago that I was joining the 11 mittens for 2011 challenge on the Ravelry group I Make Mittens. 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