Re: trying my hand at knitting gloves!

Funny how preteens and teens won't wear something because they don't think
they are cool looking, or because they think it makes them look like a
little kid. My older brother who works on a farm with horses all the time
in Saskatchewan (he's a ferrier... fancy name for blacksmith for those who
don't know what a ferrier is) actually asked my Mom one year if she was
planning on sending him a Christmas parcel like she always did, to PLEASE
put in a pair of mittens... or at the very least fingerless gloves with the
mitten flap to pull over the fingers when he didn't need to do anything with
his fingers. He said (and I totally agree) that mittens keep your fingers
and hands warmer because they are all inside the same piece of material
rather than individually wrapped... therefore the body heat from the rest of
your hand keeps them warmer. :o) I wear mittens all through the
winter.... and my son Matthew (who is 24) wears the fingerless gloves with
the mitten flap when he's shovelling the snow from the laneway.

Gemini
- good luck with your gloves though... I've never made any. I do want to
make a pair of two needle mittens, or crocheted mittens though. :o)

"Donna McIntosh" <gdmack90@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:DkNaf.511145$x96.64742@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Thanks for the support! haven't got any further
> on the gloves than what I wrote this morning, been
> playing Mah-jong on the computer! I'll probably go back to mittens after
> this! LOL but since the 12-year
> old won't wear mittens, I'll tough this out!.
>
> Donna in S. Indiana
>


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