Warm hands, warm hearts
Norwegian Wedding Mittens, adapted by Jen and moi the better to suit our Betsy and her Jonathan (Jen’s handsome pair for Jonathan are here)
Mods: Braided cast on (thanks, Nancy Bush, and thanks, clever Estonian knitters), thumbs moved to the sides, palm motifs altered to add an anchor (Jonathan builds boats), a dog and a cat (Jen charted nice ones, but I forgot to copy her charts and made up my own, so our dogs and cats are similar but not identical), shortened the back motif to accommodate my extra-large row gauge. Duplicate stitched red for the central hearts. Added a ribbed cuff liner for extra coziness and a better fit.
Wool: The natural white is an alpaca/wool blend from Imperial Stock Ranch; all else is Hifa 3 from my stash.
And now I’m going to take advantage of Baby Nap Time!!! and go prepare for a conference presentation. Would I rather be knitting more colorwork? What a silly question.
Posted: October 7th, 2010 at 8:45 am
Gorgeous! I love your colours! And I can’t believe you managed to think up all these mods and knit such perfect colourwork mittens with a small baby around. 🙂
Posted: October 7th, 2010 at 9:26 am
Beautiful! Love the mods.
Posted: October 7th, 2010 at 9:59 am
Beautiful! Lovely colors.
Posted: October 7th, 2010 at 10:25 am
wow, they are stunning!! what a gorgeous pair of mitts. the colours are lovely.
Posted: October 7th, 2010 at 10:44 am
So lovely, great color combination and I love how you modified to personalize.
Posted: October 7th, 2010 at 11:20 am
What a lovely gift! Mittens are, I think, my favorite setting for fair isle: they’re small, have very little shaping, and are consequently extremely manageable.
Posted: October 7th, 2010 at 1:23 pm
Love the mitties!! How about a baby pic or two?!?
Posted: October 7th, 2010 at 3:13 pm
They are lovely, lovely mittens, and the modifications are so clever. Love the colour combinations as well.
Posted: October 7th, 2010 at 5:32 pm
They turned out just beautifully! Love that red heart detail, and they look so cozy and cheerful.
Posted: October 8th, 2010 at 4:19 am
WOW, what a gorgeous wedding gift! They’re beautiful and are sure to be treasured as family heirlooms. I just blogged about these on my “knitting inspiration” blog so if you see clicks coming through from knitspiring.com that’s why! ;o) That’s how much I love these mitts!
Posted: October 8th, 2010 at 7:28 am
Those are outrageously beautiful! I really need to suck it up figure out how to do colorwork without pulling my hair out…
Posted: October 8th, 2010 at 10:10 am
I am officially inspired to make mittens for my step-son! Beautifully done!
Posted: October 11th, 2010 at 1:15 am
Beautiful mittens – love the colours, very inspiring.
Posted: October 12th, 2010 at 7:52 am
Beautiful work!
Posted: October 12th, 2010 at 12:20 pm
The wedding mittens are lovely
Posted: October 20th, 2010 at 6:52 am
These are gorgeous!!