I am soooo lazy.
Unfortunately OR got my lazy gene as well. Anyway, I was making mittens for my friend Lisa. I made one on the way to and from Maryland. Then I tried to make a second, but it was too small, so I made it into a fingerless mitt. Then I made a second fingerless mitt. Then I started again on the second mitten. Aargh, it is too small! I am just way too lazy to make a fifth, or even fix the 4th (and guess what - the fingerless mitts don’t match either 
) plus I don’t have enough 220 yarn. I am tempted, however, to felt the larger one and try to give them to a friend’s daughter. But I don’t know many people with daughters and the one I am thinking of I made a baby blanket for 3 years ago and never saw it again. She couldn’t even drape it over the infant carrier? But I digress. Here are my poor bedraggled mittens:
(P.S. my finishing skills leave a lot to be desired as well. I don’t know why I always end up with ends poking out.)
So because I am so lazy, I ended up making a different pair for Lisa:
I made these out of one skein of this 100% wool yarn I got at Jo-Ann. They had these kits on sale (some still have them, but they aren’t on sale for some reason) for $8 - 4 skeins of yarn as well as a circular needle, crochet hook, tapestry needle and thread. It was for a felted bag but I am not fond of felting and I thought it was a great deal. I have two of these.
So for my Christmas knitting I still need to complete one mitten for Amy and two for Shivani - for 2007. How’s that for timeliness? At least the mittens aren’t taking that long to complete. I made the pink and white ones in two days.
Which reminds me - I have a secret. I should have been cleaning or doing errands, but I went to the movies twice this week. On Monday I saw “Sweeney Todd” and started the first mitten. On Tuesday I saw “Juno” and started the second mitten. I do feel guilty for seeing movies while BR is working, but I get so much knitting done 
(Stash accounted for: 172 skeins)
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I’ve heard good things about both those movies!!
Hmm, about the ends sticking out - http://www.maggiesrags.com/tips_ends.htm (altho I never leave an 8″ end!)
http://www.knitpicks.com/content/index.php/cat/weaving-in-ends/
There are lots of resources out there!! This one shouldn’t be too bad to resolve.
The pink/white mittens are like strawberry cheesecake. Splurging on your own happiness is ok, don’t feel guilty
I do that one bigger than the other. It’s annoying. Save the mittens for charity, or send them off to a charity now. Don’t give them to someone who has already demonstrated a callous disregard for your handknits.
Ooh, good movies! I’m hoping to see There Will Be Blood tonight. And ditch the guilt over a couple of movies.
I like the striped mittens, I think I’ll check out my Jo-Ann’s tomorrow, just in case they have the kit and it’s on sale.