lindaj

I finished up a hat I started for myself back in January of 2007, based on the Coronet pattern:



I also finally finished my Ballet Camisole:



I guess it was a real Alexandra Virgiel kind of weekend.

Two more projects down!

Since I spent some time on an airplane last week, I picked up my glove design project, and put some more work into it.

Last Winter, I got it into my head that I'd like to knit some gloves (mostly because tman_mcl wanted some), and after searching far and wide, I couldn't find a decent pattern. Patterns for fingerless gloves abound, but not plain old regular gloves. So, using some very inexpensive DK weight yarn, I set about designing a pattern for myself, using all of those not-quite-right patterns as inspiration.

Trying on a glove in progress is a thing to behold. Between stitch holders holding the live stitches for the fingers (3 in total -- front, back, and pinky), and the double-pointed needles for knitting the fingers in the round, it looks like something out of Frankenstein.

The first glove wasn't quite right, but it had promise. I learned things. Last night I finished a second one, and I declare it very nearly perfect.

Since the original goal was to make gloves for someone else, however, not me (though it's a good bet that I'll make some for myself as well), I now need to extrapolate from the me-sized glove into a wider range of sizes. If I actually pull that off, I should polish up the pattern, acquire a digital camera to take photos of the tricky parts, and submit it to Knitty or something.

Against expectations, the yarn for my Estonian Garden Wrap arrived, and I've begun knitting.

As predicted, the middle part (which is where you start...go figure) is zipping along. I've completed 4 pattern repeats out of the requisite 41, and I only started yesterday.

The yarn is darker than I'd hoped, but since I had no other yarn at hand, I started anyway. The color is growing on me.

I've never knit lace before. This stuff is amazing. Wow.