{"id":94,"date":"2008-11-16T17:02:49","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T01:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/?p=94"},"modified":"2010-06-24T15:13:57","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T22:13:57","slug":"fingerless-mitt-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/fingerless-mitt-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Fingerless Mitt Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I made these while I watched Dexter Season 2 again (totally improved on a second viewing, btw), so I am calling them Rita Mitts after Dexter&#8217;s long-suffering girlfriend:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Rita Mitts - complete! by Pynnski, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pynnski\/3036663676\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3019\/3036663676_a470d3ae86.jpg\" alt=\"Rita Mitts - complete!\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They turned out nice.  I like the yarn.  I like using the folded over cuff, they&#8217;re much stretchier than they would be with a cast on (like long tail or something) edge.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m working on some other ones that I&#8217;m calling Roadhouse Mitts (because I&#8217;m watching Supernatural Season 2) that are utilizing the bluebell stitch from Charlene Schurch&#8217;s Sensational Knitted Socks.  The yarn is some weird stuff I got at the Webs booth at Stitches this year.  I think it&#8217;s Kangaroo Dyer, but there was no colorway.\u00a0 And it&#8217;s really hard to photograph.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Roadhouse Mitts by Pynnski, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pynnski\/3036664154\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3227\/3036664154_8616e99eb3.jpg\" alt=\"Roadhouse Mitts\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:30px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/fingerless-mitt-time\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made these while I watched Dexter Season 2 again (totally improved on a second viewing, btw), so I am calling them Rita Mitts after Dexter&#8217;s long-suffering girlfriend: They turned out nice. I like the yarn. I like using the folded over cuff, they&#8217;re much stretchier than they would be with a cast on (like &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/fingerless-mitt-time\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fingerless Mitt Time&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,266],"tags":[166,49,241,131],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","category-knitting","category-mittens-mitts-gloves","tag-fingerless-mitts","tag-fos","tag-personal-designs","tag-wips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":568,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}