For the past several months, I’ve been working on these lace gloves. I started them in February, and I would work on them whenever I got the chance. Finally, they are done. I knit them out of some blue sport weight cashmere I had sitting around. In spite of the fact that my lace knitting has some fundamental technical problems, I’m very pleased with them. I know they’ll come in handy when it starts to get chilly in the office.
They are perhaps the most challenging knitting project I’ve undertaken so far. To begin with, I find knitting on double pointed needles to be ungainly, and it slows me down. (I do not understand all of those dedicated sock knitters.) I’m also new to lace knitting. I modified the pattern from its original form, and added the cutoff fingers. The pattern is here (but in Swedish). An English version can be found on Ravelry, the Wristwarmwers with Falling Leaves pattern.
As a break from the intensity of these gloves, I’m currently chilling out with some scarf knitting. However, friends of mine keep getting pregnant, which makes me feel the pressure to make baby sweaters. Ack. Who knew that being a knitter could be so stressful?
I finally finished this baby sweater for my new niece, Pauline. I had started it back in October and completed it in mid-January. Initially, it was intended it to be a Christmas gift. However, my job really cuts into my knitting time. Of course, when the knitting was over, I still wasn’t done; I had to go out and find the right buttons, and then wet-block the sweater. But now all of that is done! I hope to get photos of Pauline wearing the sweater sometime in the future. But for now, here it is.
The pattern is Helena, which you can get for free over at Knitty. This was my first real attempt at lace and I’m pleased at how well it turned out. Lace isn’t as tough as I thought it would be, even for a left-handed knitter like me. I used Knit Picks Swish DK in moss for the sweater, knit on size 6 needles.
Here’s a photo of me in a sweater I completed recently. The name of the pattern is Mr. Greenjeans. It’s a free pattern from Knitty; you can find the pattern here. I think it came out pretty well, it’s maybe a bit big in a few areas. But I’m pleased with it. I still need to find a button to put on it.
So, heres a pic of the sweater I’ve been working on for the past few months. I’m not too keen on the puckering that’s going on where the ribbing starts, but maybe wet-blocking the piece will fix that. This project is getting close to the finish line; I just have to do the sleeves, the button band, and then wet-block and it will be done. There’s more photos of the sweater on my flickr photostream.