Friday I got to be part of a wonderful test knit class for Michelle "KnitPurl" Hunter who lives and teaches locally. It was actually a process and timing exercise to see how long it took for her to teach certain things and for the class to accomplish each part and move on. We all learned so many new skills: Magic Loop, two-handed two color stranded knitting, swatching in the round, and afterthought thumbs, along with learning lots of new tips and tricks. She's a great teacher, and so very patient. The other part of the exercise is to see if all sorts of people (different skill levels and knitting styles, different size hands) can get the pair of mittens from 50g of each color yarn. Except for the thumb, I finished one tonight and I have 28g left of the gray, so it will be close.
Pattern: Corkscrew Mittens; Yarn: HiKoo SimpliCity |