Finished!!
Heavy on knitting posts this week, but squirrel-and-robot mittens, I must salute you. You are everything I hoped you would be.
Squirrel, I love your big fluffy tail, your one beady red eye and your tiny knitted acorn. I also love that I actually remembered to knit in my initials before I cast off this time. Now you are demonstrably mine forever, even if I leave you on BART someday.
Robot, thank you for breaking the monotony and fooling my brain into believing the second mitten was a completely novel endeavor. I really like that you look so at home in your leafy bower.
Instead of a tiny acorn, I knit you a tiny cuff-side extension cord, which is possibly the finest thing I’ve ever done.
I realize there’s been lots of knitting prattle afoot in past weeks—allow me to reign myself in and get back to the regularly scheduled discussion of chickens, the stuff I’m buying, the stuff I wish I were buying, and my continued efforts to convince my Bill that chickens do too belong in the house.
Not that knitting and chickens and the inside of my house have to be mutually exclusive pursuits:
But that’s sort of been my manifesto from the start.
<thanks again to Adrian for the squirrel sampler mitten pattern. I highly recommend it, with or without the robot or Magnito the Wyandotte>
So very clever. Who would have thought a squirrel and a robot would make such good mitten mates?
I’m glad to see a chicken, though. They make me smile.
you have a chicken inside your house. that is so awesome. beyond words.
i love your mittens! despite my fear of robots eventually taking over the world…i am fascinated by them and think they make for very cute designs. great job on the knitting!!!!
Too cool for school! Right down to the ripped jeans. I would not even dare taking such mittens on to the BART. Unless I were just wearing them to evoke envy. I bet a bazillion people ask you where you got them if you do.
There are two obvious next steps:
1. Knit a very long extension chord from the squirrel midden, into which you will plug in the robot midden, creating a midden connector that you will wear through the sleeves of your coat so that you will not loose the middens on BART.
2. Knit middens for said Wyandotte, which, by the way, is one of my favorite breeds of chiggens. I had a Wyandotte named Johanna (after the Dylan song) when I was younger. Sit in my lap and purr, she would.
Oh. my. gosh. These are AMAZING! I can’t even begin to image how one creates such a thing. Just beautiful….and the chicken, as well, btw!
These. Are. Incredible.
If I may say so, I think I am as envious of the quality of the photo as I am of the mittens.
I have this pattern and want to make a new right hand for a robot! Can you post directions for the extension cord?
Fabulous mittens!! I LUVS them!
Please don’t ever lose them on the BART. I’d be so sad for u.
Luv your chicken, too!
These are totally awesome! The cord on the robot makes it for me
How can I get the pattern? Traditional technique + modern design = love it!
Sweet mitts!