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A dedicated post just for the mittens... Until I figure out how to host a pdf (I'm trying to figure out how to do it on Ravelry right no...

Habit-kicking is kicking my ass. I'm so happy to be hearing from former smokers - ya'll are giving me hope that I won't feel th...

So, after much head-bashing, I've got charts that fit on a page, I've figured out how to add them to a text document, and I've s...

So there's been all kinds of activity here, chez Mango, not that you can tell from my posting. Item 1: I survived my first jury duty . ...

That says it all. I've started the second bobbin of the purple roving. I'm trying to just spin in short intervals, since I've b...

I spun for 10 minutes. I've been missing the spinning bigtime - I made myself stop back in November to force myself to work on the hol...

After copious amounts of head-thudding, I finally managed to persuade a spreadsheet to show what I want. It's too big to fit on one pag...

Spent the whole afternoon trying to cobble together a chart for the thrummed mittens. It's a wonder that designers don't ask 80 ka...

Step by step, inch by inch... Here's an inside view of the thrummy goodness. I pulled some of the fiber aside near the top of the mitte...

This is my latest mitten endeavor. I'm knitting thrummed colorwork mittens again, this time with a much simpler pattern. This pair is f...

First, the Good News - The World's Warmest Mittens are done! Done! Done! I worked out what I did wrong on the thumbs and fixed it. Th...

I finished the first mitten, sans weaving in the last of the ends, and cast on the second one. Almost missed the beginning of the thumb gu...

Work continues on the thrummed alpaca mittens, albeit slowly, since my wonderful Madman has shared his cold with me... I managed to get a fe...

If I take time to go get the camera, take pics, upload pics, etc, I'll never get a post done. Besides, it's night and too dark to p...

I made Elliphantom's wonderful Herringbone Mittens as a Christmas gift for my husband - with one major change... Notice how plump the ...