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In no particular order, here’s some great pix I’ve received of bear mittens, in response to the free Polar Bear Pattern offer!!

In case you still haven’t heard, here’s the short scoop: 

There are bears in China that need mittens.  (For a full explanation, please see the previous posts in this series.)

The Oregon Zoo and the yarn shop Twisted in PDX got together and wrote up a pattern for bear mittens.

And as the CEO and general High Mucky-Muck of Polar Bear Patterns, I am offering a free Polar Bear Pattern of your choice to the first 25 people who knit even one bear mitten (and show me some kind of photographic evidence). Two free patterns if you make a whole set of 4 mittens.

 Click here to email me with your completed mitten picture, and preferred pattern choice & format: hardcopy or email.

I reserve the right to post the pics if I think they are funny or otherwise blog-worthy.

Because the mittens really are kind of big, and because unfortunately there is no official time limit on the project — there are thousands of bears that need rescuing — I’m dropping the end-of-March deadline. Free patterns to the first 25 people, however long it takes you to knit one.

 And here’s poor Kodi dog, modeling the 3 mittens I’ve completed so far…