Wow, these went FAST!
- Pattern: Fetching by Cheryl Niamath (from Knitty, Summer 2006)
- Yarn: Araucania Toconao (colorway 401, blue-green, less than one skein), purchased at Yarns R Us, Hamburg PA
- Time: Started 10/25/08 (in the afternoon), finished 10/26/08 (around the same time in the afternoon)
- Needles: Addi Turbo US 6, 40″ circular (yes, I made these 2-at-a-time on one needle, for the most part); Susan Bates Quicksilver US 6 DPNs (for the thumbs)
- Modification: I just did a regular bind-off at the top instead of the picot bind-off. Something was off with my count, and the picots weren’t lining up. When I read “bind off 5 stitches” to me that involves actually knitting 6 stitches — the 5 bound-off stitches being the passed-over stitches taken off the needle. But that put my picots one stitch to the left of where they were supposed to be. So after undoing half of the bind-off twice, I just decided to do a regular bind-off. I’m not 100% happy with it, but I’m happy enough. If I were to make these again I would try the picot bind-off and get it to line up properly with the ribbing.
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- Oh — almost forgot to mention — I used the cabling without a cable needle technique as described on Grumperina’s blog to do the cable stitches. Way simpler to deal with than an extra needle!
I love, love, LOVE this yarn — at least so far. We’ll see how it wears. But it’s beautiful when new and feels wonderfully soft. Kim had a sample ball at the shop this summer as part of a “yarn tasting” (I think it was after she came back from one of the yarn shows). I bought two skeins; used less than one of them for the mitts, so I plan to make a more-or-less matching neckwarmer to go with them, incorporating the cabling and 4×1 ribbing.
This pattern is super-easy. Very simple to follow (except for my misunderstanding of the bind-off, as noted above) and extremely quick to knit. I have never made any knitted handwear before, and I can definitely see gloves with actual fingers in my future. Possibly near future… it’s getting colder, and fast.
