The Best Laid Plans....

I like to knit. Over the past few years I’ve made quite a few things for other people’s kids. Now that I have one of my own, I llike to try and make things for her. Unfortunately it doesn’t always work out too well. Now that Indian Summer seems to have gone and it’s getting cold, I decided to make Alison a pair of mittens, rather than buy her some. I ran around trying to find yarn that would match her coat, which is navy blue on one side and cerise on the other (it’s reversible). I finally found navy blue yarn that I could live with, only to come home and find cerise (which is really the color that I wanted to use) in the stash of hand-me-down yarn I have in my craft closet. Mittens are small so they don’t take too long to make, but I still spent almost 2 hours yesterday doing the actual knitting and then another hour stitching them together, and ended up missing taking Alison for a walk, which was the reason I was making the mittens in the first place, only to find out that I had made them too small. So I started again. I made the next larger size and got them all put together and they are the right size. The only trouble is that it takes forever to get Alison’s hands in them because the thumb hole that is big enough for me to get my thumb in is not big enough to get her thumb in! But I got them on her and we took off for a walk this afternoon. I’m glad she had her mittens because it was pretty cold, but we had a good time anyway. Tomorrow I’m going to start on a hat. I wonder how many times I’ll end up making it before I get one that fits?