Apples for My Teacher

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In the United States, early American children gave teachers apples because the families whose children attended schools were often responsible for housing and feeding frontier teachers. The tradition lives on today.

The palms feature a lovely repeating checker pattern, and the thumbs have space for the year and 3 initials.

Have a science teacher? Try Newton's Mittens. Buy them both and get $1 off. Previous purchases apply toward discount.

Size Options: The size of the mittens can be adjusted by using larger or smaller needles to get a different gauge.

**Materials ** You will need yarn in 2 contrasting colors A tapestry needle Scrap yarn

A great big thanks to my pattern testers [Nickiknitz][2] and [jfmccd][3]!