Very cool!
The colors above are quite cool in tone and I would like to find something (or a couple somethings) a bit brighter and/or warmer for the bobbles. I have some deep red (also Follies) but while it would work with the other colors, it wouldn’t brighten things up any. On the other hand, maybe that would be a good thing? Not something I have to worry about right away, in any case.
I did discover that turning the work back and forth to work the short row of the stripe got a little tedious after a while, so I played with a notion that’s been percolating in my tiny little brain for some time now. I already knew how to purl from the front (going left to right), but how would you do a knit stitch? Well, stick around - I’m going to put a tutorial together to post on Friday. It certainly can be done and, while not a technique you’d want to use on everything you make, it’s a useful little bugger for things like this :) And the work just flies!
YAM - Yet another mitten :)
Mitten madness :)
This is a pretty standard gusset mitten and it worked out just fine. I also made a discovery - well, at least it worked for me. I’ve always had issues with gaps at the base of the thumb on mittens made in the round. This pattern, in standard fashion, has you place the thumb stitches on a holder (11 stitches, for the size I made) and then cast on stitches to continue working the round. For this mitten, the instructions were to cast on 2 stitches. I didn’t do that. Instead, I increased 1 in each of the next two stitches I worked. This seemed help!
Then, when I got to picking up for the thumb I picked up every stitch I could find (as per Ryan’s long-ago advise) and decreased to the requisite number when I worked the first row. Using both of these techniques seem to virtually eliminate the gaposis problem! I don’t know how well the increase trick would work if there were many more than two stitches to cast on, but I think I’d want to give it a try in any case.
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How about orange bobbles? I love that scarf, and love the colors you’ve chosen. And orange and green are my favorite colors currently :-)
Lisa - Funny you should say that! I was thinking of an orangey-gold kind of thing - something warm and vibrant :)
Mmm, you find the coolest patterns. I love the idea of joining the rows with bobbles.
Pam - It’s really cute, but I kind of don’t like the model in the Charlie Chaplin/Little Tramp get up because there’s nothing raggedy or down-at-heels about the scarf.
