{"id":2174,"date":"2012-02-29T07:00:34","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T14:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=2174"},"modified":"2012-02-28T21:12:53","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T04:12:53","slug":"lochness-yarn-comes-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=2174","title":{"rendered":"Lochness Yarn comes to life"},"content":{"rendered":"

A good friend of mine painted some yarn last year. Upon the painting of said yarn, I thought it was really beautiful and wanted to knit it up….so, I did the only thing any reasonable knitter would. I offerred to knit something for the painter with her yarn. Before you think that I’m generous of nature (yes, I know you’re really thinking I’m a tad tacky), I must admit that I was really lusting after the yarn. I had already named it. It is green and blue, so it made me think of the Lochness Monster in water. I called it the Lochness yarn for about 6 months before making my offer and getting her to bring me the pretty yarn. She joked quite a bit about when her gift would be done and I put her off all the while plotting the perfect mitts for the yarn<\/del> her.
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\nI looked through a lot of patterns. I wanted something with cables because she likes them almost as much as I do, but not too complicated so the yarn would be shown off. I cast on the Hermoine Mitts<\/a> as practice, but that wasn’t moving me, so I frogged. I started to take a look at the Monkey Fingerless Mitts<\/a> since I know the monkey socks look great in just about any yarn, but too many red flags made me continue my hunt:
\nred flag 1: the monkey socks are viral (15,000+ projects). These mitts have less than 50 projects.
\nred flag 2: there were two versions of the pattern that I might download. what does this mean? it’s a complete double rainbow?
\nred flag 3: the comments………did not bode well.
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That’s when I sorted the patterns by popularity and settled on Mitt Envy<\/a>. Surely, the kinks have been worked out after 1100+ projects. As is often the case with me, the third time’s the charm!
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\nI surprised her with the first mitt on her birthday to make sure it fit and brought her the pair about a week later. I daresay she was pleasantly surprised by my turn around on the second mitt considering it took so long for the first one. It is nice to have a friend that appreciates the hand knits….and is willing to let me play with her one-of-a-kind hand-painted yarn! She’s a good egg!
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\nPs. Happy Leap Day, World!
\nThink of all the things you can get done this year now that you have a whole extra day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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