So this weekend I learned a new skill – thrumming. Thrumming is the technique of knitting little noodles of roving into something like a glove, sock or hat (or bunny slipper!) which results in little fluffy ‘hearts’ appearing on the outside of the garment, and the inside become a lovely fluffy mass of roving loops. Over time, with wear and washing, the roving felts to the inside of the thing you have made to create an extra layer of insulation.
I first saw roving kits on the Lollipop Guild website and couldn’t resist this kit with the lovely deep grey and neon fluff. Over the last week temperatures have dropped a lot, and the wind has picked up, which has meant that my small person has really started to feel the cold. So I found this pattern for thrummed children’s mittens and decided to make her a pair of these. They are quick to make even for a klutz like me who isn’t exactly skilled with DPNs (I knit my socks on mini circulars).
Anyway, I finished the first mitten, and next morning I presented it to the small child, feeling very proud. The conversation went something like this:
Me: Look what I made for you yesterday!
Child: Oh.
Me: Put your hand in it.
Child: (Slowly inserts hand into oversized mitten) Its too small.
Me: No its not, it just has fluff inside.
Child: Its got stuff in.
Me: Yes, that’s the point, look.
I opened up the mitten to show her this…
Child: WOW! Why is that there?
Me: To keep your hand warm.
Child: Cool. I’m taking this to Show and Tell on Monday.
So I feel like I have successfully navigated the jeopardy of getting the child’s approval, and I have been authorised to make a hat to go with it. The next stage is seeing if I can get her to wear it enough that she will felt the wool inside the mitten. Only time will tell. I am going to wing making the hat, and assuming it doesn’t go horribly wrong I will post the pattern here.
The Knackered Psycho 