Category — Knitting

Sock Yarn and Mohair Fingerless Gloves for BES

I am pleased to say that I am starting 2010 with not only a new look for Slow and Sew, but also a new skill- knitting thumbs.  I have now made two pairs of fingerless gloves, also known as fingerless mittens, or “texting gloves” or “iPod mittens”.  Evidently they are not just all the rage with open air entrepreneurs, but also with the teenage texting set.  The first pair are destined for over the pond, for my cousin BES, who is living near London.

Worsted Weight Wool and Sparkly Stuff Pair

Here is the pair that I just finished, this first day of 2010.  This pair is made with worsted weight wool, and some more sparkly novelty cuffs.  This are not yet destined for a particular owner.  Want them?  I’ll make this pair available to the first commenter.

Here’s hoping in that Resolution kind of way that I learn more this year than just how to make thumbs in knitwear.  Hopefully the cooking and gardening skills will improve, too.

See? And they even fit my feet!

After the Quilt Guild’s bus trip three or so weeks ago, I found myself with several new projects to work on.  The first I tackled was knitting a pair of socks, using the technique from Melissa Morgan-Oakes’s book, 2-At-A-Time SOCKS, where you knit both socks on a long circular needle, so that you finish both socks at the same time.

The Book That I Am Using- It's Very Good

I knew that this was the only way I would ever manage to knit a pair of socks.  Why, you ask?  First, because I like knitting on circular needles, (Easier), and Second (and more importantly), I am impatient, and would likely lose interest if both socks weren’t finished very near the same time.

I learned a few things on this pair, and I’m hoping my second pair will be a little neater where I picked up stitches for the heel gussets, and now that I’ve learned better to deal with such tiny yard on tiny needles.

This pair was on a size 4 40″ circular needle, and was done with 2 balls of wool sock yarn. The color scheme was devised by Kaffe Fassett- could it have  been Rowan yarn???  The pattern is what randomly happened with each ball of yarn, as it is just straight knitting, after the garter stitch for the ribbing.

My next pair will be on a size 1 needle, with a less freaky colored yarn.  We’ll see if there is as freaky a result.