I just received the following message from a friend:

“There’s a “ktog” on the top of p. 5 that should be a k2tog, and there should be 8, 9, and 8 stitches on each dpn when you start the thumb.”

I do not understand this language.

I’m like “What could ‘ktog’ be a typo for? Oh. It’s ‘k2tog,’ naturally.”

what is this now?!

Hee hee hee.

Pattern: Anemoi Mittens, by Eunny Jang
Yarn: Dalegarn Baby Ull, #0010 and #5545, 1 skein each
Needles: Addi Turbos, US 0 (2mm) and US 1 (2.5mm)

Eunny is a knitting goddess.

There was a terrifying moment after I bound off the third mitten in which I thought that, instead of making a mitten to match one of the two sizes I already had, I had knitted a mitten of an entirely new medium size.

Fortunately, a good blocking matched the intended mates up nicely. Whew! This is the smaller pair meant for my knitting friend with the tiny hands.

If I cast on the fourth mitten tonight, and if I don’t experience more gauge wonkiness, I might have a pair for myself by the time I face Wisconsin’s fifteen-degree (that’s -9.4 degrees for you Celsius people) weather next weekend.

I did find a few minor typos in the pattern. There’s a “ktog” on the top of p. 5 that should be a k2tog, and there should be 8, 9, and 8 stitches on each dpn when you start the thumb. But the pattern as a whole is super easy to follow and the finished product is just gorgeous.

More pictures after the jump.

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Update July 11, 2009:
I have stopped offering free blog templates and have taken down the old Faces of Yve site. Sorry!

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Some of you may remember that my other hobby is web design*.

I’ve just posted a new knitting-related WordPress theme (I gave up on designing for Blogger, sorry). Check it out!

It’s a re-working of the second theme pictured here. The new version is widget-ready, is more visually interesting, and is powered by fancier/cleaner code.

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*Actually, I have many other hobbies, and all of them play a role in my plan for world craft domination. Martha Stewart better watch her back, is all I’m sayin’. But that’s a post for another day.