Boston Mitten Party
by exercisebeforeknitting
Another season, another knitterly meetup! This weekend, I met some dear friends in Boston for a knitting reunion, of sorts. We knit cowls like mad for our weekend in Philadelphia last spring but this time around, it was all about mittens. Sarah, Minty, Jennie, Megan, Julia V, Pam, Julia F, Nova, Ashley and I descended upon Boston knitters Maritza, Diana and Caro. Sadly, Staci, Meg and Christy couldn’t make it. However, Christy sent us happy and sad faces of herself so we carried her pictures around with us and photographed her doing peculiar things. Many local Boston area knitters came out to join the fun too! It was great to see Kathy, Maryse, Danielle, Femiknitmafia, Amy, Stitchy, Melissa, Kellee Adrian and Jess. I am sure I missed someone because so many people came! Of course, a knitblogger meetup of this size required a trip to WEBS, the overwhelming warehouse of yarn in Northampton. I exercised great restraint and managed to leave only $25 poorer.
On Thursday, I will post photos of the beautiful mittens Pam made me! As it is, I cannot seem to get the raw images off my camera so it will have to wait until I get home. But trust me on this one, Pam outdid herself on this pattern!
I designed some very simple argyle mittens for Julia Vesper. Let us call them Vespergyle mittens, shall we?
Pattern: Vespergyle Mittens (Ravelry link)
Yarn: Harrisville New England Shetland
Needles: US 1.5
Click here for the free pattern!
Very simple? Look at you Ms Modest.
Love the mittens!!
what a fun time!!!
Oh, I cannot wait to make these mittens. Can’t. Wait!!!
Thank you for the lovely mitten pattern!
Gorgeous mittens! And what a fun time you must have had. I’m a Boston knitter myself, and have never heard of WEBS before — looks like a weekend trip is in my future.
it looks like you had an awesome weekend! thanks for sharing your awesome mitten pattern with us 🙂
Those are gorgeous!! I love the color combination and the alternating ribbing. They are just lovely
Beautiful mittens. Love them!
Gorgeous mittens. With all that knitterly goodness close by it’s no wonder I spent time stash-diving and getting new projects ready to go.
Such beautiful mittens !!! Thanks for sharing the pattern
Danièle
What a fun meetup! Those mittens are awesome!
It looks like it was an amazingly fun weekend! Both pairs of mittens are great. 🙂
I am deffinately on the wrong coast. So many fabulous east coast knitters & I’m stuck out here on the west coast 😛
LOVE your mitten pattern! I need to knit these, even though I have no reason to knit mittens I will deffiantely knit them up & make them a present. Great design!
My only sorrow about the weekend is that we could not get A & B together. Oh, well, perhaps some other time? It was great to meet, talk and hang out with you, I wish there could have been more of that! Let me know if you find yourself up this way again for vocational purposes.
It was a delight to see you again, sweetie! Your mittens were SUCH a perfect match to Julia’s style. YAY!
Looks like y’all had a really fun weekend!
Those argyle mittens are great. Thanks for sharing the pattern!
Lovely design, Elinor! All the mittens look great, just like their knitters. 🙂
It was so awesome to see you again! Such fun times!
mwah! Thanks for the sweet words, E! And for the Vespergyle pattern–immediately queued.
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oh, it looks like so much fun!!! 🙂 you ladies always cheers me up with your smiles and handknits. the vespergyles are awesome! my hubby loves argyle. maybe i can be convinced to knit these up for him.
Such pretty mittens!! I love the colors!! Sounds like a wonderful meet up!
You have the best meet-ups ever!!!
Too funny I just ocmmented on your gift in Pam’s WIPs last week on Ravelry! ;op
They are just luscious!!!
I am sooo glad I got to meet you in person! All of your mittens are just so pretty, and I am in awe of your Webs restraint 🙂
i so know what my next mitten project will be! thank you!!
wow, wow! your argyle mittens are stunning. great combination of yarn, colour and pattern. i have to make these.
You need to come visit again soon! So much fun.
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