Ok so I have a funny fair story to share with you all. Yesterday the fair opened so my family and I headed down to see how we did on all our fair entries. I will talk about my ribbons and how we all did later but these mittens have a story to tell. While I was looking around at all the items, looking to see what I lost to or what I beat, there was this lady that was extremity upset. So much so that she went and got the suprervisor that is in charge of the Needle arts area. It turns out that she was upset because she just knew that these mittens were machine knit. She was so mad that she was screaming at her about how it wasn't fair and how there was no way that they where hand made. She was ranting and raving all over the area, along with her family. So much so she plans to write a letter to both the fair office and the local knitting guild. While she was doing all this my family and I were snickering. She didn't know I was the one who made them. Now the supervisor knew they were mine and didn't let the lady know so I'm grateful for that. But I would like to have told her that I don't even own a Knitting machine. Now here is the really funny part. I got third on the mittens. Go figure.
5 comments:
oh man that's crazy. how did she "know" they were machine knit? you did a good job btw!
Congrats on that third place and for keeping your chin up. Love how colorful they are. Can you share the pattern source?
Those mittens are beautiful! And worthy of first place!
I have the same question as woven~n~ spun: please can you share your pattern sorurce?
Continued happy knitting!
Janey
Just had another thought (hitting the Send button too fast is a bad habit of mine):
Perhaps the lady got fourth place with HER knitting?
-- Janey
Thanks so much for your kind words these mittens were so much fun to knit. I used left over Lopi light yarns that I had hanging around the house. The pattern is the cover mitten from the book Knit Mittens! by Robin Hansen
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