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?