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Knitting successes
Jul. 9th, 2013 05:23 pmOne easy one to report - in my last post on this subject, I asked among other things for a good supplier of pure wool 4-ply. I ended up going to Great British Yarns for some of this, and placed an order at about 13:00 yesterday. This morning, first post delivered wool!
The other project that's just of the needles is a solution to a problem I hadn't thought of before: this one:
Cold toes. The cast is nicely cushioned and padded, and the instructions urge me to keep the leg cool. Trouble is, if the rest of the leg is cool, the toes are often freezing, especially at 4am. So, I wanted to try out a glove pattern anyway for gauge purposes. The ribbing and the start of the plain would be the same... I couldn't reach to measure the cast or my toes, but I could look, and estimate. And I could take some DK and a 3.5mm circular needle, and produce this
Which fits, even if I do need help to put it on.
I think I'll run a bit of shirring elastic through the cuff, it tends to come off in the night (redoing it with about 8 less stitches would be better), but as a first try with no measurement, that's not bad, and it gave me a reminder of sloped decreases, too, which will come in handy on finishing the next WIP (the sleeve and neck of a jumper for a bear).
The other project that's just of the needles is a solution to a problem I hadn't thought of before: this one:
Cold toes. The cast is nicely cushioned and padded, and the instructions urge me to keep the leg cool. Trouble is, if the rest of the leg is cool, the toes are often freezing, especially at 4am. So, I wanted to try out a glove pattern anyway for gauge purposes. The ribbing and the start of the plain would be the same... I couldn't reach to measure the cast or my toes, but I could look, and estimate. And I could take some DK and a 3.5mm circular needle, and produce this
Which fits, even if I do need help to put it on.
I think I'll run a bit of shirring elastic through the cuff, it tends to come off in the night (redoing it with about 8 less stitches would be better), but as a first try with no measurement, that's not bad, and it gave me a reminder of sloped decreases, too, which will come in handy on finishing the next WIP (the sleeve and neck of a jumper for a bear).