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A Pleasant Evening of Knitting

Since I'm involuntarily stalled on My Little Companion, I decided last night to pull my Koigu out of the stash and get started on a pair of gloves. Ooooh, this might be fun! I'm following the general instructions in the last issue of Interweave Knits. Except I'm using circulars and not dpn's; I might have to switch to dpn's at the fingers - I'm not sure yet how they work.

They don't make any mention of a cuff, but I decided to add a knit-in hem. They always look so tidy and neat. I'm about halfway up to where I start the thumb. I'm getting psyched about this! And need I mention again, I love Koigu.

This pic shows both the glove and the bag in their current unfinished state. I wish my camera had a better close-up lens so I could show the hem on the inside of the glove. It is so neat and perfect, I impressed myself!

This photo has the bag colors almost right - doesn't seem like there's really that much blue in the yarn - it's more purple-y.

I stopped by Sarah's blog and got some renewed enthusiasm for the TKGA program after reading her post and bunch of the links she provided. It seems like maybe EVERYONE has these frustrations with the program. I can also see that sticking with this will really pay off over the long haul. So I will stick with the bag and the glove for my pleasure knitting, and will also stick with the swatching to improve my skills. The swatches are very small and portable - they might be good vacation knitting if I can keep the frustration at bay.

I am anxious to try out some of the tips that were mentioned in Sarah's post. Wow, this really demonstrates the value of being part of the knit blog community. If I was doing this on my own, I would really be discouraged as I don't personally know any good knitters around here.

Comments

I'm really interested in hearing more about this knit-in hem on your glove and the how to's on it. I've never heard of such a thing and would like to learn the purpose of it, and how to do it.

I'm encouraged by your ability to adapt to whatever circumstances your knitting seems to be in. And you've got my curiousity up abou this certification thing your doing. I now question whether I should be looking at it. I really want to focus on improving my knitting skills this year and would like to take it to the next level with some educational exposure and challenging projects.

Thanks for all of your good comments.

Posted by: Lisa at January 10, 2004 06:23 PM