I was recently invited to create a festive seasonal illustration of the fabulous Agony Aunt
Gerty Woolsworthy for
Stitch London's 2nd December newsletter.
For those not familiar with her, Gerty is a giant ball of pink variegated yarn, with a penchant for gin and cake (especially Battenburg), as well as dispensing pragmatic and hilarious advice for all manner of loosely knitting-related problems!
Fortunately, I have met Gertrude in real life, so dreaming up how she would celebrate at this time of year was great fun.
These are my fabulous new
Cranford mitts, which I knitted in November in a
Ravelry P/Hop group November knit-a-long. (A knit-a-long is where several people get together on-line and agree to all knit the same pattern and compare notes, photos, etc). A grand total of fifty pairs of the mitts were completed in November, raising funds in the process for Medecins Sans Frontiers via
Pennies per hour of pleasure. All of us had such fun knitting the mitts from
Jane Lithgow's lovely pattern that we agreed to extend the knit-a-long to the end of December, so there is still time to join in!
The eagle-eyed may spot that I knitted one less repeat after the thumbs: this is because these are my painting mitts!
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