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Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Guest columnist Ann from Pennsylvania
Are you ready?
MITTENS! MITTENS! MITTENS! MITTENS! MITTENS! MITTENS! MITTENS! MITTENS!
It gets cold in the winter, and little kids (and big ones, too) need
warm hands! Warm hands for walking to school, warm hands for doing
chores, warm hands for playing outside.
This is a GRAND OPPORTUNITY to use up odd bits of yarn and fleece and try out new patterns.
What shall we make? Mittens and gloves! Sizes for toddlers through large teens. Plain or fancy. Stripes, checks, flowered with little animal faces embroidered on. The only restriction is that they must be WARM!
Where to direct the finished mittens? Is there a place in your area where children from low-income families gather? A Head Start unit, school, or daycare? What about an after-school program or a Boys and Girls Club?
If no local kids come readily to mind, and you'd still like to make
mittens, hop on over to
http://sheepshots.blogspot.com and check out the
June 11 or
July 24 archived entry. Ann is gathering mittens for the Cheyenne River
(Lakota Sioux) Reservation, located in Eagle Butte, SD. Contact Ann at
amcmanus@ptd.net for the mailing address. Even though the contest is over,
mittens are still needed. 
There are lots of mitten patterns in magazines, books, and on the Internet (Google is your friend). Links to two good ones: http://users.adelphia.net/~mariella46/Child%20sideways%20mittens.htm (the pink ones pictured, knitted flat in garter stitch) and http://lovetoknitandsew.blogspot.com/2006/06/mindless-mittens-pattern.html#comments (the blue ones pictured, knitted in the round in stockinette stitch).
Both are ripe for embellishment.