Hey you, I have this pattern! Tah is how I started my whole "Thrum everything I knit in the winter" obsession. Let me know if you need it...

Best not to go against the knitting gods.....knit the mittens!!! LOL!!!

Sometimes you just have to knit what's calling your name ;o)

So glad to hear that you're not resisting your creative urges. I love it when you knit mittens, kitten.

Mittens, Oh I have been dying to knit mittens, only I'm stuck in South Central PA and it won't be cold until January.

Only a knitter would thank bob for the coming winter - I love it!

I bought two skeins of Noro in two different colorways just because I had to have them. Some things you just have to HAVE. The rest is what you need. 'Cuz you know, knitters with no stash are just killjoys.

When the yarn speaks you have to listen. Glad you decided to cast on for the mittens. The yarn sounds wonderful!

Oh, Sandy! That Fleece Artist mitten is a tiny piece of art. Such beautiful colors! Surely someone can cough up the relevant bit of pattern...

And yay for Helgi's Mittens! Plus, you know that once you finish the new pair, the old pair will turn up again. It's a universal law. ;-)

Knitting is supposed to be fun? Damn. I'm doing something wrong over here...

Love that Fig! Give him a paw-up so he can get in!

I think the first cool day will bring back the urge. It's been just too hot to knit.

Whatever it takes for knitting to be fun.

Whatever.

I know that feeling, you need to just go with it. The rest will come. Like say, the socks that I am finishing up today. I found them-one complete, the other partially knit-in my sock yarn stash while searching for a new sock to cast on. I think these were my second pair of socks ever, after my first finished pair. They aren't quite what I do today, but they are a new pair of socks in my drawer! Your love for the other projects will come back in such a way that you will not be able to knit anything else until they are done. Until then? Helgi Mittens it is!

The little baby the sock is for hasn't lost its parents... has it? That's the only thing that I could think of by he is living a Harry Potter themed life... or he's magical already, but that doesn't usually show up this early!

I can't believe I missed you AGAIN. I worked at Newbury Yarns until the end of June when I relocated to Michigan! I can't tell you how many times I restacked that exact yarn...and in fact, have two skeins of teal and one of light pink of AFE in my stash - for a nice warm hat for Michigan winters.

Can't wait to see what you make of it!

I am to blogging what you are to knitting right now. So let's make a deal. You get your knit back and I'll...I'll...see how it goes.

That yarn will make a lovely pair of Helgi's mittens!

Perhaps if you contact Fleece Artist and explain that you lost the pattern halfway through your project they'd send you another? (Without having to buy a second kit!)

Humans can be quite set in our ways. I do like the fleece artist mittens though. Any idea of where I could look to find them? Your helgi mittens though are lovely. Knit on.

You know what they say: There's no point crying over lost mittens. Especially when you have alpaca in such tasty colours. Now get knittin' those mittens, grrl!

And try to think of your other mitts not as lost, but as having gone to warm other cold hands.

I have that thrummed mitten kit if you want me to send you the excerpt of the pattern that you need.

I have been feeling 'meh' about it all lately, no matter how cute or how exciting the project. Therefore I am giving myself carte blanche to knit anything I want, in the hopes that it will jumpstart my knitting mojo again. I hope your Helgis do that for you!

Follow your bliss, I say! Keep the alpaca for petting in the meantime.