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Slubby Mittens
Super Bulky Mittens for Women by Diane Soucy
Knitting
Moi
Med/Reg
Needle and yarn
Gedifra Gigante
2.2 skeins = 72.6 yards (66.4m)
Overdyed purple
Crockpot special
Blue-purple
Skeins Fine Yarns in Juneau, Alaska
2005
Notes

Took two truly ugly cream/beige/gray Gedifras and overdyed it a very violet blue, along with a slightly less offensive pink and white skein of the same yarn, to get two coordinating but slightly different tonal palettes.

I cast two mittens onto double circulars for the cuff and beginning of gusset, but due to the increase/decreases being different on each mitten it was too much for my little brain to reverse and offset each instruction to make them both at the same time beyond that, so when the thumb gusset stitches went onto waste yarn I let one mitten languish on dpns while I worked the other, then did the mirror/swap bit to finish them off.

Dyeing excluded, from cast on to bind off the set took just over four hours to complete. It was a nice, quick little knit on a yarn that has very few patterns written for it.

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Finished
October 12 2011
October 12 2011
About this pattern
Super Bulky Mittens for Women
by Diane Soucy
from Knitting Pure & Simple Free Patterns
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About this yarn
Gigante
by Gedifra
Super Bulky
100% Wool
33 yards / 50 grams
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  • Originally queued: October 11, 2011
  • Project created: October 12, 2011
  • Updated: October 13, 2011