My mom made the most marvellous mittens.  For 5-6 months of the year ( our winters are long) Mom had mittens on her needles for one or the other of her 5 children.  Mine were always the same pattern and the same colour.  She’d made me a pair of these early on and I absolutely [...]

My daughter originally knit this pattern Ysolda’s Verity in Mission Falls 1824 Wool.

I liked it so much I had to knit one for myself, using my handspun, 100% wool yarn, in a natural tan colour.  I’m now working on a second one, in the same handspun yarn, for my daughter.  I won’t have quite enough for the [...]