{"id":7707,"date":"2013-12-17T13:13:34","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T18:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/?p=7707"},"modified":"2013-12-17T13:33:58","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T18:33:58","slug":"knitted-advent-countdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/17\/knitted-advent-countdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Knitted Advent Countdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m late to the game on this one, but it was just too cute and too fun to wait till next year!<\/p>\n

While stocking up on yarn in November for my annual knitting marathon (every evening in November and December) at Knit Picks, I came across this pattern for Smitten, a Holiday Garland<\/a> and, naturally, I bought everything I needed for it that very second. So so so cute!<\/p>\n

From http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/smitten-a-holiday-garland<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Rounds 1-8: *K1, P1 repeat from * to end of round (8 rounds of ribbing)
\nSwitch to stockinette and begin the body of the mitten
\nRound 9: K3, M1R, K6, M1R, K6, M1L, K6, M1L, K3 (28 sts)
\nRound 10: Knit
\nRound 11: K12, M1R, K4, M1L, K12
\nRounds 12-15: Knit (4 rounds)
\nRound 16: K12, M1R, K6, M1L, K12
\nRounds 17-19: Knit (3 rounds)
\nRound 20: K12, M1R, K8, M1L, K12
\nRounds 21-22 Knit (2 rounds)
\nRound 23: K12 and move them onto needle 1, K10, move the remaining 2 stitches on needle 2
\nonto needle 3 for safe keeping (12-10-12)
\nWork back and forth on the 10 stitches on needle 2 to make the thumb.
\nRow 1 (WS): Purl
\nRow 2: Knit
\nRow 3: P2TOG 5 times
\nBreak yarn, leaving a 6″ tail.
\nDraw the tail through the live stitches of the thumb, pull up and secure.
\nThe tail will be used to sew up the side of the thumb when finishing.
\nContinue Round 23 by attaching the yarn at the beginning of needle three and knitting all of
\nthe stitches on it.
\nRearrange stitches evenly on three needles and mark start of round if needed. (8-8-8)
\nRound 24-30: Knit (7 rounds)
\nRound 31: SSK twice, K6, K2TOG, SSK, K6, K2TOG twice (18 sts)
\nRound 32: Knit
\nRound 33: *K2TOG repeat from * to end of round (9 sts)
\nBreak yarn, draw tail through the remaining stitches, pull up and secure. Hide tail inside.
\nUsing the tail on the thumb, sew up the side of the thumb. Yarn can be knotted with the cast on
\ntail (mid-round 23) at the thumb joint to secure. Hide the yarn ends inside.
\nFold the end of the i-cord to the mitten cuff and sew in place with the cast-on tail to form a loop
\nfor hanging. Weave in (or hide) all yarn ends.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I knitted them up over the course of a few nights at the end of November. You just knit 24 tiny mittens, feel free to use whatever colors go with the room you’re putting this in or just whatever makes you happy. I used six different colors, so I made four of each. I used Knit Picks worsted weight yarn Swish in Serrano (holly red), Rouge (pink), Honey (yellow), Gulfstream (bright blue), Dublin (green) and Amethyst Heather (purple). Each mitten has it’s own little i-cord knitted into the cuff to hang! Then you knit a long i-cord to hang them all from, I also used Split Rings<\/a>\"\" to mark the countdown.<\/p>\n

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Instead of putting candy or toys inside (we have a few advent calendars, our kids are big on counting down and we didn’t want to add any more trinkets or candy to our lives), my husband and I dreamed up 24 fun activities and opened these cute little characters in Photoshop and got to work. We printed them, cut them out, rolled them and tied them with red curling ribbon. Then we stuffed each mitten with an activity! The kids have such a blast picking out the activity for the day and since we know what they are, we can make sure we are prepared for them!<\/p>\n

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When we’re done, I’ll post pictures of all the activities we did! Here is the list:<\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n1 – write letters to Santa<\/del>
\n2 – make paper snowflakes<\/del>
\n3 – make paper chain dolls<\/del>
\n4 – bake bread<\/del>
\n5 – make cinnamon ornaments<\/del>
\n6 – read Christmas stories<\/del>
\n7 – Christmas movie marathon<\/del>
\n8 – make homemade marshmallows<\/del>
\n9 – paint Christmasy pictures<\/del>
\n10 – make hot chocolate balls<\/del>
\n11 – have an M&M race (more on this later)<\/del>
\n12 – make Borax snowflakes<\/del>\n<\/td>\n		\n13 – decorate a gingerbread house<\/del>
\n14 – play minute it win it games<\/del>
\n15 – make snow globes<\/del>
\n16 – make botttlecap snowmen<\/del>
\n17 – make gifts for each other
\n18 – make window clings
\n19 – make gingerbread and star garland
\n20 – try a new recipe
\n21 – make a huge blanket fort in the living room
\n22 – watch The Polar Express and drink hot chocolate
\n23 – play reindeer games
\n24 – read The Night Before Christmas\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
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\"\"Stuff from this post:<\/b> Avery Key Tags<\/a>\"\", Red Curling Ribbon<\/a>\"\" and Knit Picks Swish Worsted yarn<\/a> in Serrano, Rouge, Honey, Gulfstream, Dublin and Amethyst Heather.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m late to the game on this one, but it was just too cute and too fun to wait till next year! While stocking up on yarn in November for my annual knitting marathon (every evening in November and December) at Knit Picks, I came across this pattern for Smitten, a Holiday Garland and, naturally, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[91,99],"tags":[1117,11,3],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7707"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7707"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7723,"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7707\/revisions\/7723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}