Comments on: FO: Freakmittens

By: mel

mel — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:51:03 +0000

Dude, you are so freaking funny – and I can especially relate to this kind of awful. I had this happen with some yarn I bought cheap awhile ago… big mistake. It’s so unexpected – and I had exactly the same thing happen with a pair of mitts (although my pattern wasn’t so wicked ass cool!!).

Anyway, I love your blog. Solidarity sister – hope you throw the crappy yarn at someone evil.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 23:18:50 +0000

What Kerri said: Stuff the big one in the the right hand side of your bra, the small one in the left hand side and relax in balanced calm.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 05:18:29 +0000

There used to be three UFOs in your sidebar…. now there are two. What did you finish? *suspicious squinting in your general direction*

By: marianne

marianne — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:33:55 +0000

Everyone else has said it all, and I’m talking ‘ALL’.

By: amanda

amanda — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:22:18 +0000

Can you stretch out the smaller mitten by blocking it? I’m sure that’s super frustrating!

By: Lisa

Lisa — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:40:07 +0000

Knit a third freakmitten! It might maybe if-you-hope-real-hard match one of the already freakmittens in existence… okay, then you’ll need to knit a four freakmitten otherwise the voice in your head will eat you in your sleep.

By: Mae

Mae — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 08:37:38 +0000

I love you.
That is all.

By: Floderten

Floderten — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 21:26:07 +0000

Oh damn, I’ve had that happen to me. Almost, anyway. My tweedy mittens did not end up the same size at all. They *look* alike, but they aren’t. The thumbs aren’t even the same, even though the number of rounds done is the same. Bah…

They’re too long, too baggy, too weird and the fabric isn’t dense enough to make them just a little bit wind-proof. *sigh* Super expensive yarn apparently makes stupid mittens. I’m trying to pass them onto my boyfriend, but he doesn’t want them… Nor does my brother. I don’t know anyone else whose hands they’ll fit, so I just walk around with them in my pockets! At least they keep my keys and library card from falling out, so I guess they’re good for something, right?

Mittens do suck. Next time, I’m SO doing gloves!

By: becca

becca — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 17:17:19 +0000

you make me too happy with your hilarious insanity.

“the mittens must be identical or I will kill you in your sleep. (I’m already angry at that voice for pointing out my Giant Left Boob. Now my Tiny Right Boob has quite the inferiority complex, thanks to that voice.)”

Snort.

I’m so sorry your mittens turned out freak though, really. I was one of the people saying GO DO MITTENS! sigh, and here you are with freakmittens. I echo stepho’s comments re: scotch.

By: stepho

stepho — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 14:18:56 +0000

The Cure:
1. Drink a shot of Scotch.
2. Look at mittens and laugh heartily.
3. Have some more Scotch.

This usually helps me when knitting goes awry.