Pattern: My own, inspired by Steph's Mermaid Gloves which were inspiried by Cookie's Pomatomus stitch pattern. For one of the gloves I flipped Chart A in order to get mirror-imaged scallops.
Yarn: Koigu KPM, 2 skein, and Sundara Yarn in Plum over Slate for the cuff.
Needles: US1 dpns

Couldn't be more pleased with these gloves. Well, maybe if they were in a different color, like the lovely bluish variety that Steph used. Those Koigu semi-solids are hard to come by. But no matter, I'm so glad I attempted them because they are just divine. And so easy to make! Really!

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I have fingers!

Saturday, November 18, 2006

Two half-fingers that is.

There is a lot of faith involved knitting these gloves. I have faith that casting on stitches between fingers will work out even though its purpose is a mystery to me at the moment. I have faith that I will somehow be able to neatly close the huge gaps in between. Just as I had faith that the thumb gusset would work out. I have never been this religious in my life.

I miscalculated the numbers of stitches to use for the index finger - the fit is off on the left hand but luckily is fine on the right. Go figure. I think I know what I need to for the second glove, but at the end of the day I'm not sure if I can write a pattern for these. That would imply that my knitting world operates in an orderly fashion and it totally does not. It's all ad hoc baby, ad hoc all the way. But we'll see.

It's been awhile since I've posted a Dottie photo. So here she is on a warm Boston afternoon, posing on the Longfellow Bridge.

Off to a dinner date. After two weeks of being a total hermit, I'm ready to rejoin Boston society again.

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Filed Under: Gloves | Mermaid | Postcards from Dottie