just doing as I'm told

I've been itching to knit some nice new mittens or gloves, but kept telling myself, nah, we all have some and don't need more. Then Pat mentioned a January Mitten Knitting group on Ravelry and I joined it with the idea of browsing their projects on occasion, but not necessarily jumping on the bandwagon to knit a bunch of them because, like I said, we have mittens.

Then I received notification that I, as a member of their group, had won a set of four mitten patterns from Kirsten Kapur/Through The Loops! Nice!

Hmm...lots of pretty, cabled mittens. I have yarn that would go nicely with any of those designs, but, well, I'm working on sweaters lately so maybe I'll make mittens after the sweaters are done.

Less than an hour later, I was walking into our local post office when something caught my eye.

Do you see it? Lower right corner,
resting on the post with the button that opens the door?

A single lost mitten.

A single lost HANDKNIT mitten.

Pattern: All the Water
Yarn: Dye Dreams Celestial
Size: S/M, which fit my large hands
Mods: None, but I added twisted cords to the cuffs, as usual, so they can be tied together and/or through a buttonhole to help prevent the sad scene at the post office.

Sometimes you pick the projects and sometimes the projects pick you, y'know?