Digital Marketer : Statistician : Sociologist
If you ask my friend Mike, I started this knitting project because we saw Black Swan this week. He would be right if I actually liked the film, but I thought it was cheesy. This is a sample I made yesterday, but I have plans to make a few more pairs with some remnants I have sitting around the house. They are pleated, but you can't really tell with this yarn. I'll post another picture when I finish a pair in another color.
Oh, and Happy New Year!
I finished these mittens a couple of weeks ago. They are red, long, cabled, and comfy. I don't like them.
In order to fully understand these mittens, you have to understand the story of why I even made them. Tracy, my knitting guru pal e-mailed me one day and suggested that we go to a class at Blazing Needles, our favorite knitting store, to learn thumb gussets and how to knit them without holes. This is basically just the part of the mitten where the thumb shoots out. I looked at the pattern, apparently the class was using a pattern called the 'Bella Mitten' and it seemed easy enough. It was only after this that I realized Bella was some chick in a vampire movie.
I still went to the class with Tracy, this was just a few weeks after the new Twilight movie came out. The women in the class were shocked that Tracy and I weren't there because Bella wore these mittens when she almost died and then the vampire saved her or something. How date we come to a class like this to learn a new skill. They were also taken aback when I didn't seem to know which "team" I should be on. I started the mittens in class and it literally took me almost two months to finally finish them because I hate them so much- not only what they look like, but what they stand for.
The problem with them is that NO ONE WEARS MITTENS THIS LONG!! How would I wear these and a jacket and use my iPhone?!? The only person that wears these mittens is some chick in love with a vampire that apparently wasn't wearing a coat and frankly that vampire should have left her in the middle of the road if for no other reason than the fact that she was wearing these mittens (in grey).
I also made this cute green hat from a pattern I found on knitty.com- it literally knitted up in a couple of hours and I am impressed that my curly hair doesn't stick through the lace.
I am currently a Product Strategist at iCrossing in charge of Business Intelligence. Formerly, I was the Manager of Advanced Analytics. I'm a marketer, mathematician, sociologist, student of the web, crafter of my own social network, amateur knitter and potter, people watcher, Red Cross disaster volunteer, and warrior against clutter.
I do all of this from Salt Lake City, UT. Don't knock it until you've lived here!
