Looking for the perfect DIY gift? You can make a pair of cozy, warm, fleece lined mittens from a couple of outdated sweaters in under an hour. I like to call these “Smittens.” Your friends and family will love receiving a unique pair of earth friendly, handmade Smittens this holiday season.

Xtra Tuff Love brought to you by AlaskanDermish.etsy.com Ah, Valentine's Day. Every year, if I actually have a date, inevitably my wonder boy doesn't "believe" in the holiday. How can you not believe in a holiday? It's on every calendar out there! But my conspiracy theorist exes would have you convinced that the card folders are in cahoots with the chocolate dippers who in turn scratch the backs of the jewelry setters who are definitely in bed with the flower de-thorners who, of course, all own the calendar cutters. And this maze of deception has one end, to get their precious money that they otherwise would be spending on a 60-inch flatscreen with surround sound. So this year there will be no more excuses. Let me help you put the craft back in Valencraftines Day and believe once again in a holiday free of commercialism. Make it Yourself: The Smitten Chances are it will always be freezing in Alaska on Valentine's Day, so it's a safe bet that your honey could use a good warm snuggle this Feb. 14. Nothing says, "I want to snuggle with you" like the Smitten Mitten. Specifically designed for lovers, this double-wide mitten allows for hand canoodling. You can even knit your own Smitten thanks to the folks at CocoKnits who are currently providing a free pattern for their design (store.cocoknits.com/products/smitten.html). Make it Yourself: Chocolate Dipped Strawberries Make your own box of chocolates this year and knock Whitman out of the water. You'll need chocolate chips, cleaned strawberries and wax paper to start. In a double-boiler heat the chocolate chips on medium while stirring constantly. Dry everything thoroughly, including the strawberries, so the chocolate comes out smooth. Once the chocolate has melted, dip the strawberries halfway in and then place them on a wax-paper lined cookie sheet. Let the chocolate cool, pop them in a pretty box and give them to your loved one. Try a variety of fruits like bananas and berries for a "sampler." (click here for a banana version tutorial) Buy it Local and Handmade: Etsy Love Etsy (www.etsy.com) valentine treasuries can lead to hundreds of handmade gifts including cards, jewelry, scarves, hats and more. But nothing says love like buying local too. Pick up a set of LOVE cookies with a side of pink cinnamon heart marshmallows handmade in Seward by the Alaskan Dermish (alaskandermish.etsy.com). She also makes super-Alaskan Xtratuf cake toppers if this Valentine's Day turns into the Big Day. Need a gift for the little loved one in your life? Head over to Moose Haves (moosehaves.etsy.com) whose tagline, "Fur the cute and wild" says it all. Hair ties that look like Sweetheart candies and felt lolly wands make kiddy valentines for the young and young at heart. Hit the "Shop Local" button for more Alaskan treats made for you. Buy it Local and Handmade: Juneau Has it All Don't forget to beat the streets and find gifts right here at home. Homespun Mercantile in the Airport Shopping Center is filled with handmade goodies sure to delight your loved one. If you live in town try the Senate Building, which is filled with shops that cater to the crafty and have local handmade products, just ask the staff. On your way out don't forget to grab some fudgy love at The Alaskan Fudge Company. Out in the Auke? Never fear! The UAS bookstore has a plethora of fair-trade goodies, though not all are made in Juneau. However you decide to celebrate this season, don't let the man take your love away. Reclaim Valentine's Day this year and help us all believe that love is worth more than a flatscreen.

Hello Everyone! My wish for you is that you enjoy some joy and peace this holiday season. My wish is that you also enjoy this new unit, Smitten With Mittens. I love to take one piece of literature and center my entire learning environment around it! After our New Years unit when we get back from break, I thought it would be great to use "The Mitten" by Jan Brett, another of my favorite author/illustrators. I know kids love her books as well. I am using this literature to help with retelling, drawing conclusions, interpretations, adding and subtracting, problem solving, and even some quick little science activities. Here are some pics of a few of the 50 page unit. 6 page problem solving For your free 50 page mini unit, put on your mittens and click here! As always, thank you for your support with my attempts at blogging. You all are the best!! Have a wonderfilled week!! Joyfully! Nancy

What a busy and fun week! We had a lot to fit in to our week in just 4 days. Not to mention that it was also the 100th Day of School for us this week too!We had a blast with our Mitten Unit! This is such an adorable story and I really look forward […]

1-2-3 Come Do Some Mitten Activities With Me We are smitten with The Mitten, by Jan Brett. It's a Ukrainian folktale, and one of my kiddos' favorite winter books, that's perfect for practicing sequencing and a variety of other standards. With that in mind, I designed The Mitten Literacy Packet, with quick, easy and fun "print & go" activities, games, and even a mitten craft. The packet includes: * A world map worksheet, where children locate the Ukraine as well as their own country and color it. * A label the cover worksheet, with completed sample. * Characters, setting and events, pocket chart cards. * Story elements, plus beginning-Middle-and End parts of the story, worksheets. * Worksheets for sequencing the animals. * Several writing prompt worksheets, for summarizing the story and explaining your favorite part. * Who-What-Why-When-Where-How? worksheet. * Several games, including a set of Memory Match cards that you can play 3 additional games with. * 5 Venn diagram worksheets, which are a fun way to practice comparison & contrast. * A graphing extension. * 21, pocket chart, sentence cards, which help review the story, as well as practice capitalization and end punctuation. * There's a matching set of mini cards, to use for several other activities. * 9, "We read The Mitten today. Ask me to tell you the story." bookmarks. * "Mm is for mitten and . . ." beginning letter sound worksheet. * Rhyme time worksheet, with matching answer-key poster. * "How Many Words Can You Make?" worksheet with an answer-key poster. * Keepsake hand print mitten craft, plus . . . * 3 mitten-themed graphic organizer worksheets. Whew! That covers a nice variety of stuff doesn't it? Click on the link to zip on over to my TpT shop for The Mitten Literacy Packet. Today's FREEBIE is a snowman acrostic poem packet. It's a quick, easy and fun way to incorporate the poetry genre into your studies. Besides the snowman arostic pictured, the packet also includes 5 other acrostic poem templates. Completed projects make an adorable bulletin board too. Well that's it for today. Wishing everyone a wonder-filled wintry week. Thanks for stopping by. "Poetry is when emotion has found its thought, and the thought has found words." - Robert Frost

This Hand Holding Love Mitten Free Knitting Pattern makes the perfect mitten for you and your sweet-heart to share in the chilly winter months.

September 4, 2017 I am smitten the new SU Smitten Mittens Bundle! The stamps with coordinating framelits are just perfect to make a quick WOW card. Take a look at this cutie I made with the bundle:…

Hello Everyone! My wish for you is that you enjoy some joy and peace this holiday season. My wish is that you also enjoy this new unit, Smitten With Mittens. I love to take one piece of literature and center my entire learning environment around it! After our New Years unit when we get back from break, I thought it would be great to use "The Mitten" by Jan Brett, another of my favorite author/illustrators. I know kids love her books as well. I am using this literature to help with retelling, drawing conclusions, interpretations, adding and subtracting, problem solving, and even some quick little science activities. Here are some pics of a few of the 50 page unit. 6 page problem solving For your free 50 page mini unit, put on your mittens and click here! As always, thank you for your support with my attempts at blogging. You all are the best!! Have a wonderfilled week!! Joyfully! Nancy

Hello Everyone! My wish for you is that you enjoy some joy and peace this holiday season. My wish is that you also enjoy this new unit, ...

Hello Everyone! My wish for you is that you enjoy some joy and peace this holiday season. My wish is that you also enjoy this new unit, ...

darn and double drat, i cannot find what i am looking for in my archives to share. this will teach me, for i am pants at archiving and thus i am now pants at sharing a link. therefore i will not share a link and just tell you about it instead. so last winter Tara Dearie knitted some marvelous mittens (Maize pattern by Tin Can Knits) for our one skein holiday project at Tolt Yarn and Wool. well they were mittens of the utmost kind, in green wool no less. before i went on my travels home for the holidays i left a note pinned to them saying if ever they were lonely or looking for a home to be loved, i would surely take them in. upon my return from my homeland, said mittens were waiting for me! Tara had kindly thought they would like to live with me. the rest of the winter i wore them and quite sensibly made a string for them so i did not lose them. i did however spend most of my time getting tangled up especially in the car door because of my safety string. between then and now i came across a japanese craft book which had knitted mittens with a jolly bit of embroidery upon them. my heart skipped a beat, i had mitten envy like never before. i have carried the thought of embroidered mittens in my cogs for many a long time. every now and then i revisit the thought, ponder how i would go about such a task and then put my pondering thoughts away again. until friday that is, when i had done my sorting out of woolly goodness to wear upon my hands, my head and around my neck these coming chilly days. i put on my green mitts and decided there and then we would risk it for a biscuit. first off i removed the string. then i decided to lengthen the wrist bit as it was a tad short for me by adding a few rows of crochet. one round single crochet, one round half double crochet and one round picot stitching into every other stitch below (all US crochet terms). i liked it tres muchly and it spurred me on. i rustled around in my stash for leftover yarns in pleasing colours and then i wound little bits around cotton reels to make them even more pleasing. then i decided the key to successful 'twin' embroidery was to work on both mitts at the same time. i cut out a little hand scribbled flower template, pinned in place and did a bit of running stitch around the edge to give me an idea of where i would do my main stitches. i reversed the template and did the same on the other mitt. then with yarn in hand, i started to fill in the main flower with stem stitches, not particularly uniform, just filling in as i went. oh and i must tell this too for those that may well try the same on their mitts. my mitt insert is all knowing and all seeing but is quite the silent fellow the besty best thing i did was make a cardboard mitt insert, thus i could stitch away with no fear of my needle going through to the other side of my mitt and also keeping my fabric flat to work on. i proceeded to carefully fill in my flowers, being sure not to pull tight. after which i pondered where to go, so using couch stitch i went off to the other end of the mitt near the cuff and added a side view of the flower, using the template from before, just chopping off 2 of the petals. once again reversing it for the other mitt and working at the same time. i then did a bit of natty french knotting, long stitches and some little stitches that are like giant single chain stitches and after all that, i stood back after midnight and i was without a doubt, smitten with my mittens. i love my mittens so muchly now i fear i cannot wear them out of the shed in case of a loss. i told my man in a fire i would grab my mittens first, he said "what about me?" i told him he was a responsible adult and would need to look out for himself, for my mittens were quite helpless and would need me as they could not move on their own. i love my mittens so muchly i have pinned them on the wall next to the blue lady so they may be admired by any passing bods. i love my mittens so muchly i fear which of my children will inherit them, will they fight over them, will i have to embroider 4 pairs of mitts to make it fair or wait to see who looks after me best in my old age? i would like to do more embroidery upon knitted goodness, i am thinking thriftstore sweaters would like it too. however i am wondering if this was a moment, a moment when the crafty gods got together and shone down on me, everything aligned perfectly and my crafty hands will never quite be able to live up to this one truly glorious moment in my crafty lifetime ....

This is another Patty creation. Smitten Mittens can be found on page 38 of the Holiday Catalog. I didn’t think I needed the Marbled background stamp (you can find it on page 165 of the Annual Catalog)

Hello Everyone! My wish for you is that you enjoy some joy and peace this holiday season. My wish is that you also enjoy this new unit, Smitten With Mittens. I love to take one piece of literature and center my entire learning environment around it! After our New Years unit when we get back from break, I thought it would be great to use "The Mitten" by Jan Brett, another of my favorite author/illustrators. I know kids love her books as well. I am using this literature to help with retelling, drawing conclusions, interpretations, adding and subtracting, problem solving, and even some quick little science activities. Here are some pics of a few of the 50 page unit. 6 page problem solving For your free 50 page mini unit, put on your mittens and click here! As always, thank you for your support with my attempts at blogging. You all are the best!! Have a wonderfilled week!! Joyfully! Nancy

1-2-3 Come Do Some Mitten Activities With Me We are smitten with The Mitten, by Jan Brett. It's a Ukrainian folktale, and one of my kiddos' favorite winter books, that's perfect for practicing sequencing and a variety of other standards. With that in mind, I designed The Mitten Literacy Packet, with quick, easy and fun "print & go" activities, games, and even a mitten craft. The packet includes: * A world map worksheet, where children locate the Ukraine as well as their own country and color it. * A label the cover worksheet, with completed sample. * Characters, setting and events, pocket chart cards. * Story elements, plus beginning-Middle-and End parts of the story, worksheets. * Worksheets for sequencing the animals. * Several writing prompt worksheets, for summarizing the story and explaining your favorite part. * Who-What-Why-When-Where-How? worksheet. * Several games, including a set of Memory Match cards that you can play 3 additional games with. * 5 Venn diagram worksheets, which are a fun way to practice comparison & contrast. * A graphing extension. * 21, pocket chart, sentence cards, which help review the story, as well as practice capitalization and end punctuation. * There's a matching set of mini cards, to use for several other activities. * 9, "We read The Mitten today. Ask me to tell you the story." bookmarks. * "Mm is for mitten and . . ." beginning letter sound worksheet. * Rhyme time worksheet, with matching answer-key poster. * "How Many Words Can You Make?" worksheet with an answer-key poster. * Keepsake hand print mitten craft, plus . . . * 3 mitten-themed graphic organizer worksheets. Whew! That covers a nice variety of stuff doesn't it? Click on the link to zip on over to my TpT shop for The Mitten Literacy Packet. Today's FREEBIE is a snowman acrostic poem packet. It's a quick, easy and fun way to incorporate the poetry genre into your studies. Besides the snowman arostic pictured, the packet also includes 5 other acrostic poem templates. Completed projects make an adorable bulletin board too. Well that's it for today. Wishing everyone a wonder-filled wintry week. Thanks for stopping by. "Poetry is when emotion has found its thought, and the thought has found words." - Robert Frost

Hi Everyone, You are going to LOVE the variety of products and new tools that are in this new Holiday Catalog! Such FUN for all the Fall Holidays! The new Smitten Mittens Stamp set Bundle, scores an 11 on the Cute Factor Meter. I'm SMITTEN with these Mittens! I absolutely adore this new set and had a BLAST creating this super CUTE card. Smitten Mittens Bundle Photopolymer - 146070 Here is my next new favorite stamp set, the Painted Harvest stamp set Bundle. Painted Harvest is filled to the brim with classic "autumn and thanksgiving stamps". The leaves and acorn can be assembled with a two-step stamping process and the gorgeous flower uses a three-step stamping. These images are PERFECT for a background or as a focal point, as I demonstrated on my card. What a GORGEOUS look! The sentiments are quite nice too! Painted Harvest Bundle Photopolymer - 146021 Please check out my website www.donnamarcil.stampinup.net for more new exciting sets in the NEW Holiday Catalog. Hope you all enjoyed the new cards. Thanks for stopping by, Donna Marcil

I turned my cute mitten die into a winter wishes card.

These mittens bring a touch of romance to the cold winter months. The heart and bobble panel is a nod to the Victorian era and the long cuffs are both dramatic as well as useful for staying put under coat sleeves.

1-2-3 Come Do Some Mitten Activities With Me We are smitten with The Mitten, by Jan Brett. It's a Ukrainian folktale, and one of my kiddos' favorite winter books, that's perfect for practicing sequencing and a variety of other standards. With that in mind, I designed The Mitten Literacy Packet, with quick, easy and fun "print & go" activities, games, and even a mitten craft. The packet includes: * A world map worksheet, where children locate the Ukraine as well as their own country and color it. * A label the cover worksheet, with completed sample. * Characters, setting and events, pocket chart cards. * Story elements, plus beginning-Middle-and End parts of the story, worksheets. * Worksheets for sequencing the animals. * Several writing prompt worksheets, for summarizing the story and explaining your favorite part. * Who-What-Why-When-Where-How? worksheet. * Several games, including a set of Memory Match cards that you can play 3 additional games with. * 5 Venn diagram worksheets, which are a fun way to practice comparison & contrast. * A graphing extension. * 21, pocket chart, sentence cards, which help review the story, as well as practice capitalization and end punctuation. * There's a matching set of mini cards, to use for several other activities. * 9, "We read The Mitten today. Ask me to tell you the story." bookmarks. * "Mm is for mitten and . . ." beginning letter sound worksheet. * Rhyme time worksheet, with matching answer-key poster. * "How Many Words Can You Make?" worksheet with an answer-key poster. * Keepsake hand print mitten craft, plus . . . * 3 mitten-themed graphic organizer worksheets. Whew! That covers a nice variety of stuff doesn't it? Click on the link to zip on over to my TpT shop for The Mitten Literacy Packet. Today's FREEBIE is a snowman acrostic poem packet. It's a quick, easy and fun way to incorporate the poetry genre into your studies. Besides the snowman arostic pictured, the packet also includes 5 other acrostic poem templates. Completed projects make an adorable bulletin board too. Well that's it for today. Wishing everyone a wonder-filled wintry week. Thanks for stopping by. "Poetry is when emotion has found its thought, and the thought has found words." - Robert Frost

I am smitten with this bundle! I just love the sweet two-step stamps that you can put together to build mittens in any colors. I coordinated with the Quilted Christmas designer paper to create this card in Pool Party and Blushing Bride. The greeting is from "Cookie Cutter Christmas". Here's a look at the stamp sets I used... Of course, the mitten framelits are awesome, too. Besides outlines, the framelits cut the intricate stitched pattern shown below. (Click here for previously posted details on the Crumb Cake card.) I also love the fact that this "Christmas" bundle will be appropriate well beyond Christmas. It is one of my top picks from the 2017 Holiday Catalog. Click here to shop now or use the carousel to be directed to a specific product. If you order $35 or … Continue reading →

Smitten with the mitten -- Choose from our vast selection of stickers to match with your favorite design to make the perfect customized sticker/decal. Perfect to put on water bottles, laptops, hard hats, and car windows. Everything from favorite TV show stickers to funny stickers. For men, women, boys, and girls.

Keeping your fingers warm during the cold winter is important – how will you text on your smartphone otherwise? If you want to keep your fingers warm and stay stylish doing it, however, then these creative gloves and mittens will be perfect!

1-2-3 Come Do Some Mitten Activities With Me We are smitten with The Mitten, by Jan Brett. It's a Ukrainian folktale, and one of my kiddos' favorite winter books, that's perfect for practicing sequencing and a variety of other standards. With that in mind, I designed The Mitten Literacy Packet, with quick, easy and fun "print & go" activities, games, and even a mitten craft. The packet includes: * A world map worksheet, where children locate the Ukraine as well as their own country and color it. * A label the cover worksheet, with completed sample. * Characters, setting and events, pocket chart cards. * Story elements, plus beginning-Middle-and End parts of the story, worksheets. * Worksheets for sequencing the animals. * Several writing prompt worksheets, for summarizing the story and explaining your favorite part. * Who-What-Why-When-Where-How? worksheet. * Several games, including a set of Memory Match cards that you can play 3 additional games with. * 5 Venn diagram worksheets, which are a fun way to practice comparison & contrast. * A graphing extension. * 21, pocket chart, sentence cards, which help review the story, as well as practice capitalization and end punctuation. * There's a matching set of mini cards, to use for several other activities. * 9, "We read The Mitten today. Ask me to tell you the story." bookmarks. * "Mm is for mitten and . . ." beginning letter sound worksheet. * Rhyme time worksheet, with matching answer-key poster. * "How Many Words Can You Make?" worksheet with an answer-key poster. * Keepsake hand print mitten craft, plus . . . * 3 mitten-themed graphic organizer worksheets. Whew! That covers a nice variety of stuff doesn't it? Click on the link to zip on over to my TpT shop for The Mitten Literacy Packet. Today's FREEBIE is a snowman acrostic poem packet. It's a quick, easy and fun way to incorporate the poetry genre into your studies. Besides the snowman arostic pictured, the packet also includes 5 other acrostic poem templates. Completed projects make an adorable bulletin board too. Well that's it for today. Wishing everyone a wonder-filled wintry week. Thanks for stopping by. "Poetry is when emotion has found its thought, and the thought has found words." - Robert Frost

Hello Everyone! My wish for you is that you enjoy some joy and peace this holiday season. My wish is that you also enjoy this new unit, Smitten With Mittens. I love to take one piece of literature and center my entire learning environment around it! After our New Years unit when we get back from break, I thought it would be great to use "The Mitten" by Jan Brett, another of my favorite author/illustrators. I know kids love her books as well. I am using this literature to help with retelling, drawing conclusions, interpretations, adding and subtracting, problem solving, and even some quick little science activities. Here are some pics of a few of the 50 page unit. 6 page problem solving For your free 50 page mini unit, put on your mittens and click here! As always, thank you for your support with my attempts at blogging. You all are the best!! Have a wonderfilled week!! Joyfully! Nancy

Same mitten in another color blogged about here: italiandishknits.com/2011/12/12/the-incredible-northman-m...

darn and double drat, i cannot find what i am looking for in my archives to share. this will teach me, for i am pants at archiving and thus i am now pants at sharing a link. therefore i will not share a link and just tell you about it instead. so last winter Tara Dearie knitted some marvelous mittens (Maize pattern by Tin Can Knits) for our one skein holiday project at Tolt Yarn and Wool. well they were mittens of the utmost kind, in green wool no less. before i went on my travels home for the holidays i left a note pinned to them saying if ever they were lonely or looking for a home to be loved, i would surely take them in. upon my return from my homeland, said mittens were waiting for me! Tara had kindly thought they would like to live with me. the rest of the winter i wore them and quite sensibly made a string for them so i did not lose them. i did however spend most of my time getting tangled up especially in the car door because of my safety string. between then and now i came across a japanese craft book which had knitted mittens with a jolly bit of embroidery upon them. my heart skipped a beat, i had mitten envy like never before. i have carried the thought of embroidered mittens in my cogs for many a long time. every now and then i revisit the thought, ponder how i would go about such a task and then put my pondering thoughts away again. until friday that is, when i had done my sorting out of woolly goodness to wear upon my hands, my head and around my neck these coming chilly days. i put on my green mitts and decided there and then we would risk it for a biscuit. first off i removed the string. then i decided to lengthen the wrist bit as it was a tad short for me by adding a few rows of crochet. one round single crochet, one round half double crochet and one round picot stitching into every other stitch below (all US crochet terms). i liked it tres muchly and it spurred me on. i rustled around in my stash for leftover yarns in pleasing colours and then i wound little bits around cotton reels to make them even more pleasing. then i decided the key to successful 'twin' embroidery was to work on both mitts at the same time. i cut out a little hand scribbled flower template, pinned in place and did a bit of running stitch around the edge to give me an idea of where i would do my main stitches. i reversed the template and did the same on the other mitt. then with yarn in hand, i started to fill in the main flower with stem stitches, not particularly uniform, just filling in as i went. oh and i must tell this too for those that may well try the same on their mitts. my mitt insert is all knowing and all seeing but is quite the silent fellow the besty best thing i did was make a cardboard mitt insert, thus i could stitch away with no fear of my needle going through to the other side of my mitt and also keeping my fabric flat to work on. i proceeded to carefully fill in my flowers, being sure not to pull tight. after which i pondered where to go, so using couch stitch i went off to the other end of the mitt near the cuff and added a side view of the flower, using the template from before, just chopping off 2 of the petals. once again reversing it for the other mitt and working at the same time. i then did a bit of natty french knotting, long stitches and some little stitches that are like giant single chain stitches and after all that, i stood back after midnight and i was without a doubt, smitten with my mittens. i love my mittens so muchly now i fear i cannot wear them out of the shed in case of a loss. i told my man in a fire i would grab my mittens first, he said "what about me?" i told him he was a responsible adult and would need to look out for himself, for my mittens were quite helpless and would need me as they could not move on their own. i love my mittens so muchly i have pinned them on the wall next to the blue lady so they may be admired by any passing bods. i love my mittens so muchly i fear which of my children will inherit them, will they fight over them, will i have to embroider 4 pairs of mitts to make it fair or wait to see who looks after me best in my old age? i would like to do more embroidery upon knitted goodness, i am thinking thriftstore sweaters would like it too. however i am wondering if this was a moment, a moment when the crafty gods got together and shone down on me, everything aligned perfectly and my crafty hands will never quite be able to live up to this one truly glorious moment in my crafty lifetime ....

Your classroom friends will be able to retell the story The Mitten by Jan Brett. What will they use to retell it? Your classroom friends will retell the story with this cute bracelet. This bracelet also comes with a little mitten that you'll be able attach to the bracelet as well. So as they retell ...

Vahepeal on blogisse pikk paus jäänud - aeg läheb nii kiiresti. Tegelikult olen ma siin usinalt vardaid liigutanud aga pildile pole peaaegu midagi jäädvustada jõudnud. Ja osad asjad on ju ka salaasjad :) Näitan siis juba ammu valminud raamatutöid. Aga alustuseks tahaks natuke oma raamatulapsukese saavutustest rääkida. Nimelt selleks, et raamatut ka jõuluvana kotti jaguks telliti trükikojast uus tiraaž! Mul on niiiii hea meel :) Sest see raamat ei ole minu jaoks mingi "projekt" või "töö" vaid kogu hinge ja südamega tehtud lapsuke :) Ja mitte ainult minu, vaid kogu meie pere :) Seega on mul kohe mitmekordselt hea meel, et see ka lugejatele korda läheb :) Kui ma raamatut tegema hakkasin, siis oli mul kindel plaan teha sinna ka ühed kindad naistele. Igasugu mõtteid oli peas ja algul pidid hoopis ühed teistsugused kindad tulema. Aga kui ma need teised valmis sain, siis polnud nad üldse need õiged. Ja paljuski tänu neile mitteõigetele kinnastele tajusin ma tookord, et ma ei saa seda raamatut niimoodi teha, et kirjutan märkmikusse aga iga töö tähtaja ja teen niiöelda ajagraafikuga seda. See tundus täitsa vale. Õnneks olid kirjastuse poolt 100% arusaajad inimesed ja nii sain ma unustada kuupäevad ja teha raamatut rahulikult, lasta mõtetel ja ideedel laagerduda ja valida siis välja just need, mis õiged tunduvad. Ja siis sündisidki need Haapsalu sallist ja minu lemmikmustrist - piibelehekirjast - inspireeritud kindad, mis on ühtlasi ka minu lemmiktööks selles raamatus. Töö käigus kudusin ma päris mitu proovilappi ja kinnast valmis ja lõpuks leidsin, et kõige paremad ja ka vastupidavamad kindad tulevad siis, kui pitskinnas ja voodrikinnas omavahel kokku viltida. Selisel juhul ei jää see pits ka kuhugi kinni ja püsib kenasti aluskindal. Kuna kinnaste jaoks tuleb kududa kokku 4 kinnast (2 pitsi ja 2 voodrit) ning mässata ka nõel- ja märgviltimisega, siis ei ole nende tegemine sugugi ühe õhtu töö. Pigem just selline töö, mille võtad ette siis, kui tahad kallile inimesele kingitust teha :) Nende kinnase pitsiosa kudusin valgega ja voodri beežiga. Nendel kinnastel on hall pitsiosa ja tumehall vooder. Need kindad soojendavad mu ema käsi :) Selle pitskrae kudumisel sain inspiratsiooni oma vanavanaema, babusja, fotodest. Vanasti olid ju ikka kleitidel uhked kraed, tihti valged. Ka mu kallis Merka-vanaema käis alati valge kraega. Ükskord ta tuli mulle sünnipäevale ja oli kiirustades unustanud krae kleidile panna. Siis ta palus mu käest, et ega mul pole talle ühte heledat salli anda, sest ta ei saa üldse olla nii, kaelas kraed või salli pole :) Arusaadavalt on ka see kraeke inspireeritud Haapsalu sallist. Haapsalu salli kudumine on suur töö ja kui pole jõudu või mahti nii suurt tööd ette võtta, siis saab pitsikudumise maitse väga hästi suhu ka näiteks sellise pisiprojekti kudumisega. Kanda saab seda mitut moodi - näiteks lipsuga kaela sidudes või siis hoopis paelad sisse keeratuna ja prossiga kinnitatult. Ja ka Maibrit on seda valget kraed kandnud - punase sametkleidi peal :) Ja mõned pildid ka raamatust endast:

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