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 ->twistedpdx.com] 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…