imagine the scene.. it's valentine's day, you're off for the weekend with your boy, you've got visions of the two of you strolling hand in hand over the Charles bridge (you're in Prague obviously) and then the weather says it's going to be freaking cold. Suddenly holding hands in gloves is a bit more tricky.
Enter the SMITTEN.. ( some websites refer to it as a love glove but that feels wrong to me). It's a glove with two hand openings so that you (and your loved one) can both pop your hands in and hold hands inside the glove.
I found a lovely pattern http://cocoknits.com/knit/garments/accessories/smitten.html which called for enourmous double pointed needles so I had to work out how to knit it on straight needles instead. it meant the smitten had a seam inside, but as you were meant to be holding hands there would have been trouble for anyone noticing the seam when they could have been stroking my fingers!!!
I also made two mittens for the other hand of each of us, and hey presto.
I did feel a touch spoilt because whilst I'd taken other (sensible) gloves with me as well, but the Admiral thought he'd better rely on his new gift of the smitten and didn't take any other gloves.. We were smittened all weekend!
