"Smitten" - mitten for holding hands

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Becky Stern is a Content Creator at Autodesk/Instructables, and part time faculty at New York’s School of Visual Arts Products of Design grad program. Making and sharing are her two biggest passions, and she's created hundreds of free online DIY tutorials and videos, mostly about technology and its intersection with crafts. Find her @bekathwia on YouTube/Twitter/Instagram.

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February 4th, 2009 10

Do you like to hold your sweetie’s hand, but your fingers go numb after just two blocks? Knit a Smitten for Valentine’s Day with Julie Weisenberger’s free pattern. For bonus holiday applicability, it looks like a heart when knit in red. Make two regular mittens to go with it, or just put your free hands in your pockets. This reminds me of my “hand-shaking glove:”

10 thoughts on ““Smitten” – mitten for holding hands”

evanlivingston says:

February 5th, 2009 at 2:04 am

I’m checking out make less and less every day…

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sushi says:

February 5th, 2009 at 4:19 am

I agree with evanlivingston…what does this have to do with making anything?

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JJ says:

February 5th, 2009 at 5:19 am

I thought this was a nice idea and if I could knit then would consider giving it as a gift to two certain people.

The smitten has a knitting pattern and even if it didn’t then it is still a good idea that somebody with the skills could make their own version of.

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someguy says:

February 5th, 2009 at 11:40 am

Cool idea…if only it hadn’t already been done at least twice…

http://www.instructables.com/id/Make_a_Couples_Mitten_aka_Smitten/

(Nice try, though)

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norm says:

February 6th, 2009 at 11:13 am

What Evan said. I spend more time marking Make posts as read in my feed list than I do reading them. Also, putting your hands in each other’s pockets is more fun.

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