Red Vines Mitts: The Pattern

Since posting my Red Vines Fingerless Mitts on Craftster, i've had a few people ask for a pattern. Which is a huge compliment.

And now i'm super happy to say i've written my first actual pattern and put it in my Ravelry "shop"... which isn't exactly much of a shop yet. But it is available for... download now! (That's the link they gave me, complete with demands to "download now".) If you'd just like to see the Ravelry page, click here.

After that whole, huge ordeal (i could not, for the life of me, figure out how to upload the dang pdf to Ravelry for days... turns out it's super simple), i think i'll post photos of my niece and our projects for the day: collages.

I found out today that Nick is her favorite Jonas.

Check out WeeWee's superior photog skills.

Sweet tat.

Ah, naptime. The best part of the day. No offense, Ween bean.

Oh, and yes. Kevin is my favorite Jonas.

The Horse of a Different Color Slippers You've Heard Tell About

I had planned on writing about my day trip to Seattle on Saturday, but then i ended up having a pretty great day with WeeWee¹. She woke me up and we had breakfast. Then, as she does every time i see her, she asked, "Can we watch Wizarboz²?"

Well, of course. This is only the 34th time we've watched it since that first time two months ago.

As Dorothy was crying to her aunt and uncle about Miss Gulch, i looked down at my Scarecrow slippers³ and realized i hadn't yet made anything Wizarboz-inspired for WeeWee! Unacceptable. I quickly did a little inventory in my head and realized i had some white, purple, red, and yellow yarns that i could use to crochet her some slippers. She loves her some slippers.

By the time we got to the Horse of a Different Color, i had gotten to the yellow on the first slipper. Perfect timing. Well, good timing. Perfect timing would have been having both slippers totally finished.

I said, "WeeWee, look! It's the horse!" Of course she knew the horse was on the screen, that's her favorite part. I showed her the almost-finished slipper and said, "Look, it's white, just like the horse. She loved that. I asked her what color the horse would be next. After a second, she exclaimed, "Purple! Like on the slipper!" So i asked her the next color. Red. Of course. Then she asked, as she does, "When will the horse be yellow?" Well, WeeWee, he still hasn't turned red, so just hold your horses. Of a different color. What. That was bad.

After the movie had finished, and we'd watched all of the "If I Only Had..." songs again, her slippers were done. And super adorable, if i do say so myself. And i do. I just did.

I mean, little kid slippers are just cute, anyway. But when you add something that's special to both of you...






After Wizarboz, WeeWee had to take a nap. I asked her, "WeeWee, what do you want to do after your nap?" "Um... um... um... crafeth⁴?" "What kind of crafts?" "Um... OH! We can go outside and get leaveth! And then we can get glue and glue them to the paper!" I said we would see.

We watched some Little Einsteins... she napped... i crocheted... she woke up.

Time for crafeth. The leaves fell some time ago, so they're all brown. And brittle. Not the greens, reds, and yellows she was expecting. I suggested we pick up some sticks instead and make God's Eyes. We found some sticks, avoided a weird pile of sap in the grass... and headed back in.

We made one to match her slippers, but i don't seem to have taken any photos. She did not appreciate having to sit in my lap so i could help her. So she took her sticks, the yarn, and claimed her own spot on the floor. He God's Eyes turned out a little differently. Imagine twigs wrapped in yarn and cast aside.

While she was busy, here's what i came up with.



It's nowhere near as interesting as anything WeeWee creates, but we can't all be artists.




Glossary
1. WeeWee: niece number 2. Real name: Kalia.
2. Wizarboz: The Wizard of Oz.
3. Scarecrow slippers:

4. Crafeth: crafts. She adds -eth onto words when she wants to pluralize them... (In case you haven't figured it out, she has a couple little, adorable speech problems.) So instead of crafts it's crafeth. Leaves are leaveth.