Bah Humbug!

Thank you everyone for your response to my Huggie Bunnies, both the new crochet version and the existing knitted ones.  I'm so glad to think of these bunnies sitting around your houses, hoarding yummy goodness.  Happy thought!

Today's offering is a bit of a sweet treat too really.  Well, my colour choices are reasonably saccharin sweet and pattern, 'Humbugs' is a good old fashioned sweet shoppe staple.

How typical of me to be just finishing off a pair of cozy mitts when the temperatures are hitting the heady spring-like heights of 20° this week.  Still, as I live in the unpredictable weather zone that is England, I dare say I'll still get use of them before the month is out.

Another of the patterns that I'd had on my miles long 'things to make one day' list, I'm so glad that I finally got around to making a pair.  The pattern is by clever Suzie Johnson of The Wool Sanctuary fame.  I made her teapot pattern too (you need to scroll down a bit for the teapot).  I love her things.

It's a lovely pattern to make even though I seemed to make a complete hash of it by not reading the perfectly clear instructions properly. I ripped back at least 5 times on the first mitt and then still noticed a mistake.  I even made the button holes in the left mitt in completely the wrong place too and I didn't notice until I came to do the thumb hole.  What a chump I am.  Being hugely lazy and not being able to face more ripping, I just fudged it to move the thumb hole round and it worked out ok.  The seam isn't where it should be now but that's the price I pay for being a lazy bones.  

Obviously my knitting skills (and apparently my pattern reading skills) must be getting rusty, I even had a moment when I couldn't for the life of me think how to cast on!

The only thing I'm not sure about is the striped, two-tone effect of the yarn I used for the little fluffy border pieces.  I would have prefered a solid colour, just the hot pink without the paler parts in an ideal world, but I had that 'almost' stuff in stash and it seemed daft not to use it.  Especially since buying a whole new (and expensive) ball for just that small amount didn't make much sense.

It was a compromise but now the buttons and the ribbons are in place I think it works ok.  

I think I got away with it.

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Pattern: Humbugs by Suzie Johnson

Yarn:
Debbie Bliss Cashmerino Aran in Gold (034)
Debbie Bliss Rialto Aran in Rose (21241)
Crystal Palace Yarns Kid Merino in Pink (9801)

Bah Humbug! Ravelry Page

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