I am working on a pair of Fresco Fair Isle Mitts, by Pam Allen, from the Fall 2008 issue of Interweave Knits. I am using some of the yarn I bought at Rhinebeck (from the Carolina Homespun booth). It’s very nice hand-dyed wool from Hand Jive, called Nature’s Palette Fingering.
The pattern calls for 3.25 mm [...]
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Fingerless Mitts vs the Goddess of Gauge
Posted in knitting, tagged chart holder, Fair Isle, fingerless, fit, gauge, Interweave Knits, knitting, mittens, mitts, Pam Allen, Rhinebeck, wool on Thursday November 13, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Knitting Socks
Posted in knitting, tagged gauge, knitting, scarf, socks, Tsarina of Tsocks, yarn, Yarn Harlot on Tuesday March 11, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I’ve recently fallen into the habit of knitting socks. Something I never thought I’d do, thanks to the distant memory of my first try at socks – knit using worsted weight beige acrylic (yes, it was in the 80s, why do you ask?). With no thought to gauge, I fired up the double-pointed needles and [...]
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