Making Time

This is not a pattern, it’s instruction for freestyle crochet mittens.

I’m going to start putting in stuff I have done in the past, so it can be more like a scrapbook and ideas space. I wrote these instructions a while back, and I’ve taught people how to make mittens this way.

This is fun and simple, I promise. I have tried making mittens with the three double ended knitting needles before. And that was hell-on-wheels. I ended up feeling, (as usual when I follow patterns) inadequate and unlikely to ever finish a mitten. But crochet is much easier to shape.

Here you can see my buddy modeling the first pair I made. Red and white, since you stop and start mid-mitten, it’s very tempting to add a color. Here they look dipped in red paint.

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