knitting on the go

top: It probably seems like I travel with a backpack full of yarn. (and it is partially true)
bottom: sweater I'm working on, with yarn I got in Portland! Using the same pattern from these mittens I made last year. ugh and one of the mittens is sadly MIA somewhere :( :(
this winter was a bad for mittens --- I lost two pairs and 2 hands (is the way to call it? Or does that make me sound like an amputee?) . I need to make a memorial or something commemorating lost mittens everywhere. It's so sad! Or maybe a lost mitten network. Helping mittens find their way home.