Kathy from Just Crafty Enough says she thought it would be until pigs flew that she would win a ribbon for knitting at the Minnesota State Fair. And pigs did fly, in a sense, on her red-ribbon-winning Knit Flying Pig Mittens, which she has supplied the pattern for on her blog.
The mittens use traditional Scandinavian heart motifs and completely untraditional pig motifs, along with a cute little hemmed picot edge for extra adorableness. There are even little hearts on the thumbs, which may be my favorite part of all.
Kudos, Kathy, and thanks for sharing!
[Photo by Just Crafty Enough.]
Jorid Linvik’s Big Book of Knitted Mittens:
45 Distinctive Scandinavian Designs is sure to inspire you to want to knit some fun mittens, whether embellished with classic motifs like birds, hearts, moose and classic colorwork designs or those with a more modern feel liks guitars and skulls, a giraffe, penguins or a turquoise lizard.
The book includes a lot of instructions on how to make your mittens come out right, including a discussion of how different gauges can give you different sizes of mittens (and which mittens can be worked to different sizes for kids and adults). The charts are a little different from others you might have seen in that they show how to divide the stitches on the needles and where to place the thumb.
Looking for more knitting patterns for Mittens? Check these out on Etsy.
Love it! Of course, in our case, they should be Razorbacks instead of flying pigs. 😉
I want these mittens!