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A Lovely Second Set of Gloves

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Made it to the finish line on my second set of Teacher Fingerless gloves! Not in time before school was out, but they still make a lovely gift.

All the Christmas hubbub is dying down and I managed to snuggle down last night and crank out the second mitt since we had nowhere to be. A single mitt takes me my full post-kiddo bedtime time.

I made these in the 48 stitch count which is Adult Large. I didn’t see much difference between these and the adult medium. Maybe two stitches per inch? The large size used 120 yards of yarn on US5s. I didn’t mess with smaller needles for the ribbing, I couldn’t be bothered.

This pattern is in my brain now and I am having the craving to make a set of these in my black handspun to put with my new winter dress coat…. so that may need to be a New Years cast on.

Happy Knitting!!

A Second Glove Cast On

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In an effort to avoid “Second Gift Syndrome” I decided to get the other set of teacher gloves on the needles so I wouldn’t be tempted to let them languish.

This pair I am going to experiment with the women’s size large for this go around. I am interested to see if the 4 stitch increase in pattern makes a big difference in size. I know I could measure gauge and do the math. But heck, it’s the holidays and I feel like throwing caution to the wind.

Now back to Christmas prep….only two days to Santa! Happy Knitting!!

A Matching Pair

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Still sprinting to Christmas and I finished first pair of fingerless gloves for teacher holiday gifts. I LOVE how they turned out.

Pattern: Dreaming of Spring Fingerless Gloves by Joelle Hoverson

Needles: US 5s throughout

Yarn: Good for Ewe Claddagh in the Abyss colorway

Mods: I didn’t use smaller needles for the ribbing. I just couldn’t be bothered and they turned out just lovely.

I unfortunately will not get a second pair made before class lets out later today for the other teacher. So I slipped a card with a treat and an IOU for the other teacher. Now I can chill a little bit and work on the gloves over school break.

P.S. I literally was finishing the second glove and lost the first one for like 20 minutes. I had a full on panic attack….10 out of 10 do not recommend.

Happy Knitting!!

Work From Home Style

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Still working from home and my current coworker (aka my husband) insists on opening windows or running the AC because he is warm all the time. I meanwhile am freezing my debits and credits off. So I’m looking quite the sight on my Zoom meetings….but at least I’m warm!

I have on my Free Your Fade, my Faded Fingerless Mitts and DK Habitation throw. What is your work at home style of late?

Cast On: Kindness Mittens

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I finished my shawl last week and this week I have started some matching mitts! I really liked the pattern Fingerless Mitts by Cheryl Goyer that I used with my Free Your Fade leftovers so I decided to repeat it.

I’ve so far cast them on and worked through three inches of ribbing. I’m ready to move into the stockinette portion before the thumb. It’s kind of nice to have a speedy knit on the needles right now! Not to mention this is a nice cool project that doesn’t leave a heap of wool in my lap when its 90 degrees.

Happy Knitting!!

FO Friday: Faded Fingerless Mitts

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My Faded Fingerless Gloves are finished! They practically flew off the needles!

Pattern: Fingerless Gloves by Cheryl Goyer

Needles: US 5s

Yarn: One Twisted Lavish DK in Chaotic Nuetral and Anzula Ava in Raspberry

Mods: added a fading sequence from Andrea Mowry’s Free Your fade Shawl

I didn’t get my yarn measured exactly in half. So in the second glove I did not have enough grey to make the full cuff and complete the full fade sequence. I knew I was in yarn chicken territory so I altered it on the fly. They definitely don’t match but I honestly don’t care. I used 90 yards of the Lavish (grey) and 73 yards of the Anzula (pink). This used up every last inch of the grey and left a small ball of the pink to put in my memory blanket.

I didn’t manage to snag a photo of the gloves with the coordinating shawl. Perhaps when Spring gets into full swing around here I can get some decent outdoor photos? This project just made me super happy to both have a matching peice and to use up some golden skeins of yarn to the very last bit!

Happy Knitting!!

Cast On: Faded Fingerless Mitts

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I may have fade on the brain lately. I finished my Free Your Fade last week and I was over the moon. But I still had a decent chunk of the grey and raspberry left and I decided to make a matching accessory to go with the shawl.

I cast on some DK weight fingerless mitts. Our house has had too many germs for relying on my brain to make a pattern so I found a great free pattern on Ravelry. I’m using Fingerless Mitts by Cheryl Goyer as a base and then just adding an Andrea Mowry fade.

I just flew by the seat of my pants with the grey yarn and JUST managed to eek out the perfect fade sequence in the first mitt right as I ran out of grey yarn. This one is done except for the afterthought thumb. Now I need to cross my fingers and start the second mitt to see if I can recreate this yarn usage and size…fingers crossed!?

Happy Knitting!!

Polar Vortex

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Here in Kansas it gets pretty cold during the winter but we rarely have polar like temperatures or wind chills. But yesterday made up for it! We have -15 to -25 degrees Fahrenheit wind chills at 6 am. I took extra care to put warm woolies on the kids and make sure the fur baby didn’t dawdle on his morning constitutional. But I still had to walk from my parking spot a couple of blocks to my office….

I had my Rainbow Pop hat, my honey cowl, my fingerless mitts and not pictured my Neon Vanilla Socks. I really need to find my commercially made wool gloves because fingerless really didn’t cut it at -15. But I managed to keep all 10 fingers for knitting.

And in true Kansas fashion it will be above freezing by the weekend with possible 40 to 50 degree Fahrenheit temperatures. Mother Nature keeps us guessing around here!

I hope you all stayed warm where you are! Happy Knitting!!

An Almost Finished Rainbow Mitt

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My Rainbow Pop Fingerless Mitts are moving right along.

I’ve made A TON of mistakes because I’m mainly knitting these in the dark after the kiddos go to bed. I have uttered a lot of curse words and mostly gone back and fixed the dropped stitches and wonky yarn bits. But these will be FAR from perfect. My needles are also very sharp and I feel like that is part of my problem too (besides the dark).

I completely just winged this “pattern” and I really hope I can duplicate for the second mitt! The rubber will really hit the road when I cast off the cuff and try these babies on. I have no idea how these will fit other than I know they will fit over my fist.

Happy Knitting!!

Here Comes The Rainbow

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After the Yarn Barf incident and then my finished Rainbow Pop Sockhead Slouch I FINALLY got started on my finger-less mitts to match.

And thank the Yarn Gods, I managed to get a good gauge and have the rainbow blips fall nicely around the mitt on the first try! Now all I have to do is just keep knitting!!!

P.S. the yarn barf cake is now a nicely hand wound ball. I’ll knit this project and then probably re-cake (loosely) for storage.

Happy Knitting!!