iPhone and iTouch Michigan-user-tested mitten. It works.
Time to catch up on the secret holiday knitting, but first this: A new pattern!
Super uber-simple mitts for using sock yarn that’s too pretty to put on your feet.
These are designed to answer the problems we cold-climate-dwellers have with using our electronic gizmos (in my case an iPhone) in the winter. iPhones work through naked fingertips, and not at all if you are bemittened or begloved. (Yes, Apple is getting ready to release a glove with electro-conductive fingertips, but who wants to wear technogloves when we could be wearing some Koigu or Lorna’s Laces or Socks-that-Rock, or your own hand-painted, hand-spun, hand-dyed wonderfulness on your hands?
Well, not US, anyway.)
So here are mitts that will cover your fingertips when the weather is the way the weather is now in Michigan. And uncover for most of the time while still keeping you hugged and snugged and warm.
I’ve been test-driving these guys all winter, and they’re great in 2×2 ribbing — the most elastic rib of all. Boring, yes, but don’t you sometimes need a boring project? Sometimes? Kind of?
Haven’t tried these in a bigger yarn yet, but that’s coming. Or, you go first, and tell me about it?
The nice thing about this simple tube is that when you walk into a store and need your hands, you can pull in your thumbs, and just scrunch these right up onto your wrists. No more losing your mittens in the bottom of your purse at the grocery store!
Many of you won’t need a pattern for these. But for those of you who like having them, or want the schematic so you can riff. Download your iphone-mitts-pattern here.
March, 2009 Note: Pattern tweaks for a worsted-weight version available here.
genius.
Aw, thanks, Taylor!