Tuesday morning at out house is know as Trash Day. It’s the one day a week the city comes by and picks up the trash (provided someone remembers to take the cans to the curb!). Yesturday ds remembered and ran out and took cans to curb without wearing a coat. It was around 32 f at the time, so he got quite cold. When he came in and got his coat on to wait for the school bus, he came over to me and asked,” Mom, can I have just a bit of wool to put in my pockets?”
Now this boy lost atleast one of nine differant pairs of mittens and/or gloves last Winter alone! He’s mildly autistic, so if they are to keep up with or difficult to get on and off they get lost quickly. It isn’t intentional, and it isn’t exactly an accident either. Anyway, I asked him if he wanted me to make him a pair of mittens/gloves or did he want a bought pair. He choose wisely, he wants a pair knitted for him.
Now I searched the internet trying to find a pair that I could knit easily and that he’d wear and keep up with. This might sound easy, but isn’t as easy as it sounds. He wanted mittens, but I know for a fact he’ll pull them off to use his hands and end up loosing them. (He did just that with a $18 pair of fancy smancy ones my folks got for him for Christmas last year!) Combine this with two other facts–1, I don’t have the money to purchase extra yarn just for mittens; 2, I only have sock wool available to use–and it wasn’t so easy.
Then the light bulb went off! I checked Knitty.com and found just the perfect pair to make for him. I am almost half done now with the first of a pair of “Broad Street Mittens”, a convertable mitten. They are mittens that you can fold back the finger cuff and have a pair of fingerless hobo gloves! These should hopefully do the trick. With any luck he’ll hang onto them….atleast untill the weather warms up next Spring!
Sorry the picture is such poor quality. But what can you expect from a $20 digital camera? and ofcourse the flakey (me) camera operator! LOL