I liked the fingerless gloves I wrote about in my last post so much that I had to make a pair for myself. The pattern is the same as then, an adaption of Fetching from Knitty. I just love them, they are the perfect thing to wear at the moment, when there is no way of predicting what the weather is going to be like when you live your house in the morning.
There is one minor flaw though; the gloves have different colours.
I knew they wouldn’t be completely similar when I started knitting them, but if I had known then how different they turned out, I might have tried knitting them a little differently. I don’t mind really, I think they are charming the way they are.
So, what is the reason for this mismatched pair of gloves? This:
I used some of the yarn left over from knitting the Trellisscarf last summer. The scarf and the mismatched gloves match perfectly and they are just the thing for the season’s unpredictable weather.
There has been a long period of hibernation and knitting nothing but socks. I am happy to finally have some new knitted objects to show off. (Socks in progress are plenty, but I am saving them for later.)
The first finished objects are a pair of fingerless gloves knitted in lambswool (Røros lammeullgarn). The pattern is an adaption of this famous pattern. The yarn I used was a lot finer than the yarn asked for in the pattern, so I had to go down several needle-sizes, adjust the stitch and row-count and ad more cables. I am so happy with the result. Unfortunately, this pair is for someone else, but I love them so much that I immediately started another pair.
The second finished object is not completely finished yet. It is a very simple triangular shawl knit top-down. What makes it interesting is the yarn used; unspun yarn from Evilla. This was my first experience with unspun yarn, hence the simple pattern. Even though it is very easy to break the yarn, it is very nice to work with and in my opinion knits up very nicely. The knitted fabric is very soft. I want to felt this shawl, but not to much. I have never intentionally felted anything before so I am a little scared that it might look like coming out of the washing machine. For now I am just contemplating and looking at my shawl which I actually think is quite pretty.
