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Some Mitts and a Hat, Just Because

It started with the mitts. Or rather, it started with wandering into a fabric and yarn store in Oregon with my nieces last year. "Hey, no promises, but if anyone sees anything they'd like, let me know, and we can talk about it."  Well, one of them saw a pair of fingerless mitts she liked. Kind of plain-ish, in dark gray or black.  It took a while, and a little back and forth, but we settled on some yarn I already had at home, some dark gray (the color is called Dorian [gray]). It was a gift my friend Andrea had brought from New Zealand. It's 45% Polwarth (a breed of sheep) 45% Alpaca, and 10% Possum (NOT a breed of sheep). We also decided on the simple but elegant Roddin Mitts by Ysolda Teague, from her Knitworthy 7 collection. Ysolda creates these great collections of gift knits for knitworthy recipients - the whole collection is released as a book, and mid-December, the individual patterns are released. So part of the wait was my frugality. But in the end, so worth

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