Elegant Gauntlets in progress
Very excited to have my knitting bug again! Even tho I no longer knit hours and hours a day I am still managing to get things done. YaY me and my sense of accomplishment.
Last weekend we went to our state Capital with the girl scout troop via train which was exciting. The train ride was conducive to knitting, of course, but the traipsing up and down hills from one site to the other was most decidedly not helping me reach the end of my project.
Just off the needles are the Elegant Gauntlets from Sally Melville’s The Knitting Experience Book Two: The Purl Stitch Becoming Intuitive. The book was put out by the XRX folks and the pattern is riddled with mistakes. The pattern’s sizing depends on gauge and the smaller size has a recommended gauge of 6 stitches per inch but the larger size has a recommended gauge of 7 stitches per inch. Math tells us that this is incorrect. The more stitches per inch the smaller the diameter. And for recommended needle sizes they suggest a larger needle for the larger size but one goes down in needle to get more stitches per inch. Finally somewhere along the hand they have you working on 3 needles but state knit on needles 1, 2 and 3 then x stitches of 4th needle. I personally was offended by the errors and slightly horrified since this series was billed as beginner books. Mind you the patterns are very elegant and so much nicer than the plain unshaped items one often found in beginner books.
Case in point my lovely new gauntlets awaiting some weaving in of ends and a dunk in the sink. The yarn is a lovely handpainted merino from Prism in shades of purple and brown and an inky almost black blue. Unfortunately it appears as if I downsized my cord to camera and am going to have to continue working with my iPhone for a while longer. A small issue to be sure.
Next up is Strokkur by Ysolda. I ordered the Lett-Lopi a couple of weeks ago and it arrived on Thursday. I am not sure what color I will end up using for my contrast. I picked some shades to hopefully match a skirt I own and am waiting for a clear day to compare the 3 potentials to the stripes on said skirt.
Well yarny days and knitterly evenings
elka