Having seen me knitting the Kelsey-bound Bella mitts this past summer (during an unseasonably cold and rainy weekend we had planned to spend wine-touring the Niagara region), Suze asked whether I might make her a pair for Christmas."Of course," I answered, "what colour?"
One long trip to Romni Wools in Toronto, and several colour consultation cellphone photos later, I had 200g/200m of wool in mustard (I have about 60g/60m left). It took a car drive from Montreal to Halifax to knit the left mitt. I started the right mitt on a labour day weekend away and finished it up during an afternoon with my knitting group later in September.
This was the first Christmas handknit I finished and Christmas was still over three months away. And so I stored them in a box in my closet; an end of September bff reunion and Suze's November birthday passed, and still I waited to give them to her. Then December came. Exams ended. A long drive back to Ontario was survived. Suze visited me at my parents' house on the 26th, and five minutes once in the door we exchanged gifts. And as the friend she is, she didn't take the mitts off for the better part of her overnight visit.
She also sent me photos of the mitts almost immediately after I asked for them, because I'd forgotten to take any myself.
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