So for anyone who hopes this is a part-time knit blog, here I hope is a progress picture of a pair of mittens I’m making from Lopi-Lite. Fabric Place in Woburn, which was two (three? who cares) stops up 128 from where I used to work from July to October, had their Lite-Lopi on sale sometime back then. I picked up several balls of it in navy, brown, slate blue, tan, and white, thinking I’d make some mittens out of Anna Zilboorg’s _Magnificent Mittens_. I did a lot on them back in December and early January, in fact got both of them done down to where the thumbs get added. My hands have been bothering me for several weeks and I didn’t do anything on the mittens until maybe ten days ago, when I started just a little at a time. I was pulling the yarn really tight starting a new needle (working on DPs) and stretching the work to keep the floats from being too tight and puckering. I thought all that might have contributed to the hand problems. On the thumb I decided, I’d rather have my hands working, I could stand ladders where the needles switched and puckers in the floats, so I’m trying to hold everything in a very relaxed way. So far so good, but “so far” just means fourteen rows of 24 stitches on one thumb.
