the Village Knittiot

This is the decision I will face tonight at approximately 5:45 pm when I sit down with my newly purchased copy of Worlds of Warcraft(or as it is referred to in our household — WoW) to create my first character for my first MMORPG (massively multi-player on-line role-playing game –isn’t that a mouth full?).

I must choose a side. I think I am going with the Horde.

And this is not all that is joyous in my life at the moment. This is the mitten, or at least the tip of the mitten, I was enticed into making by that yarn-pusher over at Skein Street. She’s been on a bit of a mitten kick, and I decided to tag along. I am forever indebted to her for introducing me to the amazing Anna Zilboorg, who does wonderful things, like never ever referring to needle size, just giving a general gauge, and putting blank mitten patterns at the back of the book for you to fill in with your own kick ass designs. This one here is from her book Magnificent Mittens, but you can bet your ass after I get done with this pair, that I am to be putting funky pen to paper and coming up with a graph all my own.

Michelle, over at The Orange Yarn Please said they reminded her of Mitten Cakes (eliciting chortles of delight and laughter) — something to do with a Martha Stewartesque quality to them. But now, after discovering another fantastic book by Zilboorg called Knitting for Anarchists, I think maybe my new pal Anna is a little more Tank Girl than Martha Stewart.

Tackling the ultra-cool mitten pattern, which wasn’t at all as complicated as I had feared it would be, I was not surprised in the least to discover that Ms. Zilboorg caters to us independant knitters.

1 hour and 24 minutes until WoW…

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