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more on the gloves
Aug. 28th, 2014 09:41 pmI'd like to talk about more about the gloves before I move on.
Ages ago for a BF I knit a pair of sideways gloves, Urban Rustic. I haven't asked him if he still has them.
Instead of being knit from cuff to finger tip, they are knit from edge of hand, across front and round the back. They have fingers, you end up with a lot of flappy half fingers, flapping about. Also they are rather short at the wrist, an oddly delicate look for gloves in a chunky wool.
I liked it, despite the fingers, annoying, and wrist, I live in scotland a country with aggressive drafts. I liked the sideways nature and the garter stitch. Fingerless gloves would be much easier, longer cuffs, also easy.
For those new to knitting garter stitch is bumpy on both sides, stocking stitch is flat on one side, bumpy on the other.
The yarn, I love it, I picked it up when I did a lace class in K1 yarns in 2010, from Ripples yarns.
In blue and purple, with brown bits. It was picked up to make Gamer some socks.
I may have done some, but I think the colors pooled or do that frequency wave, great if you want it, but annoying if you don't
So back in the stash it went.
The stash, is a magical place, in which all yarn is treasured and protected, unless the evil moths get in. All yarn, no matter how cheap, how regretted, how little of it there is. All yarn.
A stash is a knitters personal heaven, 'oh that's so pretty', and hell, 'I have no idea what to knit with it' and 'what was I thinking!!!'
Once the idea for sideways garter stitch fingerless gloves was contemplated, I got it out and remembered how much I liked it, the colour, the squish, the way it slides between the fingertips. I digress
The final piece of the gloves, is shaping, slightly tighter at the wrist and knuckles, broader across the hand. Normally you do this by adding stitches or removing them. Knitting sideways you have to add in extra rows. This is done by not knitting all the way to the end of a row, a short row.
In these gloves this is also how you make the thumb gusset as well.
To join the edges, you could just sew them together. Or you can get more elegant about it, with a provisional cast on (where you end up with a row of live stitches you can knit from) and a Kitchener stitch seam, which is where with a sewing needle you join two sets of live stitches together with a line of knitted stitches
It is a kind of magic...giving you a continuous piece with no obvious start or end point.
The Kitchener stitch is actually named after the Kitchener.
Your stash needs you!
Ages ago for a BF I knit a pair of sideways gloves, Urban Rustic. I haven't asked him if he still has them.
Instead of being knit from cuff to finger tip, they are knit from edge of hand, across front and round the back. They have fingers, you end up with a lot of flappy half fingers, flapping about. Also they are rather short at the wrist, an oddly delicate look for gloves in a chunky wool.
I liked it, despite the fingers, annoying, and wrist, I live in scotland a country with aggressive drafts. I liked the sideways nature and the garter stitch. Fingerless gloves would be much easier, longer cuffs, also easy.
For those new to knitting garter stitch is bumpy on both sides, stocking stitch is flat on one side, bumpy on the other.
The yarn, I love it, I picked it up when I did a lace class in K1 yarns in 2010, from Ripples yarns.
In blue and purple, with brown bits. It was picked up to make Gamer some socks.
I may have done some, but I think the colors pooled or do that frequency wave, great if you want it, but annoying if you don't
So back in the stash it went.
The stash, is a magical place, in which all yarn is treasured and protected, unless the evil moths get in. All yarn, no matter how cheap, how regretted, how little of it there is. All yarn.
A stash is a knitters personal heaven, 'oh that's so pretty', and hell, 'I have no idea what to knit with it' and 'what was I thinking!!!'
Once the idea for sideways garter stitch fingerless gloves was contemplated, I got it out and remembered how much I liked it, the colour, the squish, the way it slides between the fingertips. I digress
The final piece of the gloves, is shaping, slightly tighter at the wrist and knuckles, broader across the hand. Normally you do this by adding stitches or removing them. Knitting sideways you have to add in extra rows. This is done by not knitting all the way to the end of a row, a short row.
In these gloves this is also how you make the thumb gusset as well.
To join the edges, you could just sew them together. Or you can get more elegant about it, with a provisional cast on (where you end up with a row of live stitches you can knit from) and a Kitchener stitch seam, which is where with a sewing needle you join two sets of live stitches together with a line of knitted stitches
It is a kind of magic...giving you a continuous piece with no obvious start or end point.
The Kitchener stitch is actually named after the Kitchener.
Your stash needs you!
