The Gloves are Off!

I mentioned last year that I asked people what they wanted me to make for Christmas, and aside the fun seat belt covers, the rest was all fingerless gloves! And an XXL wash cloth, but that’s a different story.

Different people gave me different variations of what it is they were thinking of and, well, when push came to glove, I got the needles out and did my best!

My mum, very Henry Ford of her, wanted fingerless gloves, any kind would do so long as they were black. Before this, I had seen the OwlLady knitted a twisted rib hat and I wanted to give the technique a go, and well, as long as they were black right?

These are the Twisted Reversible Mitts by Littletheorem (free pattern) in black. I actually really enjoyed this technique – super simple, but very effective. My mum gloved them too as they were very squishy and cosy and, of course, for her one and only request of being black in colour.

My Nephew on the other hand was a lot more precise with what he wanted. He has fallen head over heels in glove with anime, all different kinds. And what he really wanted was Assassination Classroom gloves.

Haven’t seen this one personally but the moment I googled it I knew exactly what he was after.

With yellow, I knit Don’t skid, honey! by Justyna Lorkowska (another free pattern) and then put a small bit of white felt which was handily lurking in the stash, and then filled in the detail with some black wool. He was mitten with these! Well worth the effort!

And lastly, Rabbie. The best of all requests was given to myself for her arm warmers: Dealers choice.

I immediately knew I wanted to knit a pair to match her thneed, muted rainbow with dark stormclouds, and well, not gonna lie, it was pretty handy to dig out all the wool to create my own blend as I was inspired to do the same for those seat belt covers…and beep beep rainbow sheep…

These are by far my favourite of the gloves. And I have been told that they fit like, well, like a glove. I followed the Camp Out Fingerless Mitts by tante ehm pattern (more free patterns!) and just had some fun with the colours.

Next week will be a run through of the last of the Christmas knits and then it will be back to the usual chaos. Speaking of which, I want to really focus this year on doing all the little craft jobs/tasks which I keep meaning to do, just later. So unless I have a really good excuse, it will be now, or at the very least shortly, rather than later.

Baby steps.

It means that the knitting content may become even less, but like last year, I’ll share my other things instead.

And with that, the very first wool count of the year! My starting total has increased, but they were gifts or very useful purchases for planned projects (another goal for myself, no buying wool unless its telling me what it wants to be). I also aim to have less than I started with, but I also aim to do a fair bit of spinning this year, so even if I end up with more, as long as the bulk of it is my own hand spun yarn, I’ll be pretty pleased. I intend to keep a firm grip on it this year!

Wool Count

Starting total – 790

Wool used – 2 (woo!)
Wool unaccounted for in my stash – 0
Wool bought – 0
Wool given to me – 0
Wool gifted to others – 0
Wool handspun – 0

Total – 788 (Net difference: -2)