A proper send-off

My piano teacher is recruiting donations for a mitten drive. So today I picked through our giant baskets of winter ware for donatable items.

They're too small on me now :(

But I like to think that my very first knit designs will be keeping someone else warm.
After all, that's why we knit in the first place, isn't it?

Well here's what our favorite online free knitting magazine forum people have to say

According to a post on the Knitty Coffeeshop forums, a designer has
~taken a pattern and added to it
~changed a pattern design
~sold or self-published the design
~taken a vintage pattern and added your own flair to the design
~or made an entirely new design

In other words, one small mitten has given me a title. *puffs out chest proudly*
To read what the Coffeeshop knitters have to say, click here.

Does this make it official?

One Uptown mitten ready to go!! I'm having a hard time believing I actually knit it without any patterns.

I'M A DESIGNER BABY!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOHOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Or is it free-former? Do you have to actually write down the pattern to be a designer?? Cause in that case . . .

They're more notes than an actual pattern (and the notes are not in order ((a picture I had drawn previously also confused this further))).

Screw writing the pattern. I"M A DESIGNER!!!!!!!!!

Uptown Mitten 1

I can't seem to get the lighting right in knitting pictures. Oh well. The first mitten conceived from brain scratch is coming along nicely. The braided cable isn't coming out exactly as I pictured, but it isn't terrible, so I'll deal.

Also, if any of you come across a book by the author April Young Fritz, I advise you to run far, far away. Her books are very boring. Trust me. My Language Arts teacher is forcing us to read them. It's the equivalent of watching paint dry.
And when you are finished running, stop and buy the Uglies trilogy, or anything else by Scott Westerfeld. It will instantly wake you up. ;)