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Name: Squirrel Mittens in Faire Isle
Pattern: Loosely based off of Squirrelly Swedish Mittens
Yarn: My own handspun in lace/sock
-3 skeins of tea dyed
-2 skeins natural brown
Needles: Size 0 (and not small enough, of so I knit really loose!)

Mittens posing with my “disembodied hands” wearing them (antique wood hands meant for drying gloves on)

Uber up close of the squirrels. That weird bump you see in the middle is actually the thumb, not my bad blocking abilities (which you can blame other things on)

The mitten blocking, and a view of the “inside” of the thumb.

Modifications: What did I NOT modify would be the better question. I have really narrow hands, so I made the gloves smaller by almost 20 sts. I reversed the chart for the second to account for the random chopping off of stitches (one whole squirrel). I also made the gloves slightly shorter by taking out one repeat of the main pattern and by doing double decreases to reach a point quicker (hence the tops look wonky). I also added an extra compassy type points that goes across the knuckles.

Next time: Next time I’ll make the thumb a bit narrower, and probably add some sort of braid as hello yarn did, and make them wider if I am making them for someone else.

Other Notes: I chose this pattern since I wanted something very simple to go with the tea and natural browns, and I wanted it to have a very organic feel to the mittens, so I needed a pattern that would fit with the yarn that was spun up thick and thin. I used about 125 yards of the tea dyed (the main color, 3 skeins), and just over 100 yards of the brown.