Your faithful dork recently had to be hospitalized for surgery. Everything went well and full recovery is expected, but I did get a midline incision that incapacitated my core until it heals. You use your core for EVERYTHING, so that nasty little side effect could not clear up too soon!
While convalescing I knitted these geek mittens. I adapted a pattern created by flibbertigibbet bunny and graciously shared opensource style. Ain’t the internet amazing!!! If you are interested, the pattern is available on bunny’s blog, and I’ll only post it here if it ever becomes unavailable there. Bunny definitely deserves not only link luv, but a few clickthroughs from here as well. The blog is worth a perusal for some other interesting projects as well.
I believe in the mind-body connection, and as I knitted I visualized the corresponding knitting of nice strong healthy scar tissue in my belly that will prevent me from rupturing, because frankly, it still feels like that could happen any minute, though it’s getting better.
The adaptations I made are as follows:
- I wanted my design to be in the official Tux Colors: black, white and yellow. That entailed using three colors instead of two as suggested by the pattern.
- I didn’t want my mittens to be pointy at the top, since hands aren’t. So I used an accelerating decrease strategy to give a rounded shape, instead of the linear one suggested by the pattern.
- I used up a little more of the yellow by making a plain bumper at the end on the palm side and making the back of the thumb yellow. This also gives the mittens some color on the palm side: otherwise they’d be totally black and white.
- I didn’t do any of the designs around Tux on the back side. I wanted him to be the only thing there.
- I altered the placement of the thumb in the downward direction, as that was where my husband’s thumb was when I lay the piece against his hand. If I had placed the thumb on the fourth row of binary as directed, the ribbing would have gone way down his fore-arm.
- I omitted the top row of binary as by then all the fingers were pretty much covered and I didn’t want to have a lot of slop beyond the fingers.
Next time I’ll try smaller needles and/or wool and see if I can’t build a pair of these for myself. I will also tie more knots when I change color, so that the unused color won’t tighten up across the back. Hey this was my first multi-color knitting project ever. I was trained in childhood to knit Aran Island style, where all the design is all in the stitch patterns etc., and you NEVER change color!
Watch this blog for an even wilder adaptation of the Tux Mitten pattern in the future!!
I’m glad you’re recuperating now. When I had been hospitalized a year ago, I could not move my fingers as nimbly as yours. So I just settled myself on stringing large beads. Good thing, my friends and relatives liked my chunky jewelries. 🙂
It was slow going at first. Nothing wrong with my fingers but the mind that was driving them was a little torpid from drugs. As the drugs wore off the knitting went along better and faster.
faithful dork its good to read for me even all other users that you are Restoring to good health now. I have not faced such condition but I cam feel that.May you will be better fast.
Really nice to hear people helping each others, faithful dork always pleasure to read.
Hope you feel better, and that your body heals fast and well! I’m glad to see you’re keeping yourself busy, the mittens are quite cool! Next item to knit – a tux jersey!
I hope you recover fast. At least you find things you can do to spend with your time.
Anyway, your idea is good.
Thanks for the well wishes everyone. It gets a little better each day. My photographic friend suggests a grey background so the mittens show more clearly. I guess I’ll be updating the photo shortly. A TUX JERSEY… the pattern either knitted as is with really big needles and fat wool, or maybe knitted with the same wool, but the pattern blown up and refined. Now THERE’s a project!
Wow, awesome mittens. Does the binary on the gloves mean anything or is it just random 1 and 0’s?
Hope you feel better 🙂
Can I know what is meant bu tux colours. Gatwick Airport
Glad you’re recovering well – love the mittens by the way. Good job.
Tux is typically depicted as being a penguin. These birds are typically black and white or shades of gray. Some have brighter colored beaks and feet. Since Tux is a stylized logo with yellow-to-orange beak and feet.
I can’t say it any better that they 8 previous commentators, I guess you’re fully recovering and ready to rumble..Moni
Hi I’m Jonhy!
Mitten’s beliefs are not of his direct control, does Mittens really have free will???
Also, can you break a fifty???
I bow to your awesome knitting skills. I’m more the Aran Isle style knitter myself. Love what you did with the design!
I love that fatty penguin. He (or maybe she) is so cute.
I hope you feel better! At least you find things you can do to spend with your time.
Anyway, your idea is great
mittens??? come on.. this would make us linux guys look even more geeky.. how about some linux headbands?? 🙂
Nothing stopping you, Blu Ray. Adapt the pattern, go for it and send me a picture!
Really hope you feel better soon. At least you find things you can do to spend with your days.
My daughter would love those mitts, will print out the pattern and pass on to my mother in law who is very good at knitting and will hopefully make my daughter a pair.
Many thanks.
This looks like awesome patterns, my grandma should see them.
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