{"id":1442,"date":"2010-11-12T08:36:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-12T15:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/?p=1442"},"modified":"2013-04-08T16:51:40","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T21:51:40","slug":"dickens-christmas-crachette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/dickens-christmas-crachette\/","title":{"rendered":"A Dickens of a Christmas &mdash; The Cratchette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Cratchit is famous for a few things&mdash;being father of Tiny Tim, being cold, being basically cheerful, and having fingerless mitts in most representations of him.<\/p>\n<p>While it would be nice to knit some fine-gauge fingerless mitts as Christmas presents, my reality is that I have far too much knitting to do in far too little time. Instead, I worked up this little pattern for our Holiday Hop. For your knitting pleasure, I would like to introduce<\/p>\n<h2><em>The Cratchette&mdash;a quick pattern for warm, fingerless mitts <\/em><\/h2>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1441\" href=\"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/?attachment_id=1441\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1441\" title=\"The Crachette\" src=\"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/photo-16-116x150.jpg\" alt=\"The Crachette--A Knitting Pattern from Crafting-a-Life Originals\" width=\"188\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/photo-16-116x150.jpg 116w, https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/photo-16-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/photo-16-797x1024.jpg 797w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/shop\/?page_id=172\" target=\"ej_ejc\"><\/a><br \/>\n$1.99&mdash;pattern includes adult medium and child medium instructions along with ideas for further sizing options; chunky and bulky yarn used, respectively.<\/p>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/cratchettecover_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"209\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2>Free Pattern booklets coming soon:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>How to Knit Socks&mdash;DPNs<\/li>\n<li>How to Knit Socks&mdash;Two Circs<\/li>\n<li>How to Knit Socks&mdash;Toe Up<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Check the sidebar of this blog for further pattern updates.<br \/>\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1443\" href=\"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/?attachment_id=1443\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1443\" title=\"Artful_dodger_oval\" src=\"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/aiden_dodger_oval-184x300.jpg\" alt=\"A Dickens of a Christmas\" width=\"184\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/aiden_dodger_oval-184x300.jpg 184w, https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/aiden_dodger_oval-92x150.jpg 92w, https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/aiden_dodger_oval-628x1024.jpg 628w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 184px) 100vw, 184px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAnd a reminder that this holiday season a group of us have come together to present <strong>a Dickens of a Christmas<\/strong> blog hop:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <strong>April<\/strong> of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.21stcenturyhousewife.com\/index\/Blog\/Blog.html \">21st Century Housewife<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li> <strong>Ken<\/strong> of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/kenalbala.blogspot.com\/\">Ken Albala&#8217;s Food Rant<\/a><\/em> and many, many books about food which you should check out<\/li>\n<li> <strong>Sarah<\/strong> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.totastings.blogspot.com\/\">Toranto Tasting Notes blog<\/a>, print journalist, food blogger and author of an upcoming book about the home canning revolution<\/li>\n<li><strong>Margo<\/strong> of <a href=\"http:\/\/hatshadows.blogspot.com\/\">Hat Shadows<\/a>, a professional milliner for film, theater, opera and ballet.  She teaches hatmaking courses so <a href=\"http:\/\/hatshadows.blogspot.com\/\">check out her blog!<\/a><\/li>\n<li> <strong>Diana<\/strong> of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/spaininiowa.blogspot.com\/\">A Little Bit of Spain in Iowa<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li> <strong>Annette<\/strong> of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.SustainableEats.com\">Sustainable Eats<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li>and <strong>Me<\/strong>!<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There will be recipes for the traditional foods Dickens wrote of in <em>A Christmas Carol<\/em>, or recipes that would have been found in Victorian England around the holidays.  There will be a professional reading of the story available as a podcast.  There will be giveaways, themed knitting patterns and quite possibly hats!  There may be smoking bishop and suet cooked in organs.  And there will certainly be much making of merry.<br \/>\nThe blog entries will be rolling out starting the week of 8 Nov 2010 and will culminate Thanksgiving weekend to kick off your holidays in Victorian style.<br \/>\nSo please do bookmark all our blogs and add them to your rss feeders.  We&#8217;ll be using the tool<em> <\/em> below to link all the blog entries for the entire shebang so that you don&#8217;t miss a single one.  We hope you enjoy this as much as we know we will!  And we hope that you have a <strong>DICKENS OF A CHRISTMAS! <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/www.linkytools.com\/thumbnail_linky_include.aspx?id=55087\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Next week! <em>A Christmas Carol<\/em> podcast!<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Cratchit is famous for a few things&mdash;being father of Tiny Tim, being cold, being basically cheerful, and having fingerless mitts in most representations of him. 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