I finally finished it!
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knittingpixOr one of it, at least.
Those striped gloves I was starting back in March or April?
It took me about two months and seven starts, but I finally finished the damn thing!
The yarn shop I go to over in Indiana has an entire wall of Mirasol yarn that I like to stare at. I was thinking that the turquoise and the medium blue would go well together in something with big chunky stripes. Then I was thinking that the turquoise and the medium blue and the white would stripe well. Then it was the blues and the white and that purpley navy blue. Somewhere along the line I decided that I wanted to make opera gloves. I don't know quite where that came from, other than the fact that I'm the sort of person who insists they're never cold and don't need a sweater until it's too late to get one. On my second or third start I thought that it should have a color for each finger. It doesn't look exactly like I pictured, but I'm still pretty pleased with it.
Part of what attracted me to the yarn was that it's so shiny, but that makes it hard to photograph. That top one is about the best reproduction of the colorway I've been able to get. The lower one is the yarn in front of a window on an overcast afternoon, so I think I'm going to be signaling aircraft if I wear them out on a sunny day.
Cable!
Deadpool! Hand! I've been sort of thinking about going back and continuing the cable up the pinky, but I think that might look weird. I'm not sure.
This is my pattern, which I finally sat down and wrote out one day while I was bored at work. Part of the reason I'm so psyched that this glove turned out as well as it did is that I pretty much made it up as I went along. I was thinking of putting it up on Knitty or something, but that would require me to finish typing it.
Those striped gloves I was starting back in March or April?
It took me about two months and seven starts, but I finally finished the damn thing!
The yarn shop I go to over in Indiana has an entire wall of Mirasol yarn that I like to stare at. I was thinking that the turquoise and the medium blue would go well together in something with big chunky stripes. Then I was thinking that the turquoise and the medium blue and the white would stripe well. Then it was the blues and the white and that purpley navy blue. Somewhere along the line I decided that I wanted to make opera gloves. I don't know quite where that came from, other than the fact that I'm the sort of person who insists they're never cold and don't need a sweater until it's too late to get one. On my second or third start I thought that it should have a color for each finger. It doesn't look exactly like I pictured, but I'm still pretty pleased with it.
Part of what attracted me to the yarn was that it's so shiny, but that makes it hard to photograph. That top one is about the best reproduction of the colorway I've been able to get. The lower one is the yarn in front of a window on an overcast afternoon, so I think I'm going to be signaling aircraft if I wear them out on a sunny day.
Cable!
This is my pattern, which I finally sat down and wrote out one day while I was bored at work. Part of the reason I'm so psyched that this glove turned out as well as it did is that I pretty much made it up as I went along. I was thinking of putting it up on Knitty or something, but that would require me to finish typing it.
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Date: 2009-06-10 11:00 pm (UTC)...and if you're not up to the typing, could you scan and post? I'd love to give something like that a whirl.
:)
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Date: 2009-06-11 02:06 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-06-11 05:40 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-06-11 06:51 pm (UTC)The colors look beautiful, by the way. I just chose similar ones in Jamison to try my first colorwork on a pair of mittens (grey, dark and light blue)
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Date: 2009-06-13 07:45 am (UTC)