Quick story about how this trip/design came about:
So immediately after the election, I was pissed and afraid and troubled. Very fired up. And I saw murmurs that some people were organizing a Women's March in DC. So I was like- hell, yeah. Found some ideal flights I could get with miles and proposed the idea to a friend. She kinda chuckled, but called back two days later with the same fire in her belly and it was on.
Well, we go back to book those flights and they were gone. EVERYTHING was gone. $900 to buy it straight up. Guess some other women in my area had the same idea!
Took some wrangling, but we got flights with a third party's elite miles (my husband's- that's not anti-feminist, right?). In a day or two, plane was totally full. Couple of weeks later, we get an email saying they've upgraded the plane and there's 50 more seats. Totally full again in a few hours. So I'm super looking forward to our flight to DC, full of women on their way to a march... Any of you out there on an SFO-DCA flight on Jan. 20th? Ping me!
Back to the knitting:
It could be cold in DC in January and since nothing about my warm gloves and mittens screams "I'm a feminist!", I thought I should knit my own. Thus:
Since it's a rough pattern, thrown together quickly and because I think anyone who wants to make a pair for the march should do it, the pattern is only $2. Get it here. And then share your pictures on Ravelry, as I'd love to see how other knitters interpret the pattern... In the first 3 days, there were already 100 downloads!
