My hands are ready for a New England winter.

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• Pattern: Knotty Gloves by Julia Mueller (Ravelry pattern page is here)
• Yarn: Cherry Tree Hill/Wool in the Woods superwash sock yarn — Lottery colorway (which is sort of a potluck dinner of all the dye colors from that particular day)
• Needles: US 1.5 (2.5 mm) 40-inch circular (magic looping from cuff to dividing for fingers); US 1 (2.25 mm) sock DPNs for fingers and thumb
• Started 1/21/09, finished 5/20/09
• Link to my Ravelry project page

These were way easier to make than I ever thought they would be. Each finger and the thumb are knitted one at a time, while the remaining stitches hang out on waste yarn (or, in my case, the circular needle I used to knit up from the cuff). The celtic cabling is extremely addictive — I wanted to just keep on knitting “one more row” (which turned into one more, and one more, and one more…).

Now that we’re (somewhat) settled in our new home in New Hampshire, my hands are prepared for the winter well ahead of time.

I also finished a pair of socks for my cousin Jill… but no pics of those yet until I’ve given them to her. I missed my chance to drop them off in person, so I’ll have to mail them.