innovator: thumb holes for texting
I don't recall posting these little pink mittens I designed over summer. They're called thumbalina, made from Patons bamboo yarn in magenta. I also made a pair of socks for a friend from the same yarn and with the left over, I did the mittens. Now I love inventing things and usually they don't turn out so well as these did. What you should be looking at is the narrow slit in the thumb in picture 2. I had been contemplating the idea of designing mittens, because over the last couple years I always thought that mittens were really just the toes of socks with a little tube on the side where you put your thumb...oh yeah and no pesky heel gusset. Here's the good part. I was listening to the WEBS broadcast that I subscribe to on my iPod and they were interviewing Kristin Nichols who will be teaching a glove class in the near future. About halfway through, WEBS asks her about using a smart phone with gloves on and that yo...