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I don't know what's brought it on, but I've got gloves and mittens on my mind. I finally finished my white woolen gloves and I really enjoyed the process. These particular gloves look a little like garden gloves to me, so I'm hoping that washing and blocking will spiff them up, and I'm considering adding some embellishments. I'll post the embellishments when I actually do them. Something for the reader to look forward to.I enjoyed the glove process so much, that I've found a few great vintage glove patterns with cables that I'm going to make next. However, I'm home at the moment and don't have the right yarn, but I've got some yarn that I bought at the New York Sheep and Wool Festival last spring, so I'm going to move into mittens.
I have admired Eunny Jang's Anemoi Mittens for a long time and last night seemed like a good time to start them.
My Anemoi Mitten is so over. I spent a few happy hours with one of them, last night and this morning. It has that wonderful tubular cast on that I raved about. It also has this wonderful corrigated rib that I had never done before. Unfortunately, I started knitting it in DK instead of fingering so it will, as it is, fit Sasquatch. Therefore, I took its photo to remember how much I love it and ripped.
I've still got mittens on my mind, and I've got this particular yarn Snow Star Farm yarn, so I turned to the actual pattern that I bought to go with this yarn. It's a more standard Norwegian mitten, but it doesn't t have the free flow feel that I love in the Anemoi. My memory kicked in, and I recalled that I've had Kate Gilbert's Bird in Hand Mittens in my queue for a while. When I checked the needed yarn I discovered that the guage required is exactly what I was getting for my Anemoi Mitten. What luck!!!! Thanks to Ravelry and Pal Pal I got the pattern in about 5 minutes and I'm going to start as soon as I finish this post.
Anemoi, I still love you, and when I find the perfect fingering yarn, you will once again be on my needles.
