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innovator: thumb holes for texting

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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...