Selbuvotter: Biography of a Knitting Tradition
is one of my all time favorite knitting books. A few years ago, Keith picked out the Annemor #13 design and KnitPicks Palette in Marine Heather (a blue-green) and Marble Heather (gray) for his mittens. I'm not sure why it took me so long to get to this project, but I was able to complete these mittens for the Christmas 2011. I was concerned looking at the Marine Heather that it would come off feminine, but when it was combined with the gray it looked beautiful, but still masculine so I was thrilled!
With the start of this project (August 2011), I realized that palette has increased from $1.99/50g to $3.39/50g. I am disappointed by this price change, but since Palette is one of my favorite yarns, I will continue to use it.
Annemor #13 is sized for Women's Large or Men's medium, and I was afraid that the mittens would be too small for Keith. I used size 2 (2.75 mm) knitting needles rather than the size 1 (2.5 mm) needles that I usually use for these kind of mittens.
Some notes from my knitting:
- Because of the 63/64 stitch discrepancy after the first set of increases on the cuff, there was one extra stitch in the first row of the mitten. I therefore left out one of the increases for the thumb.
- On the back of the thumb, I did a double decrease on each side of the checkerboard for the very last row. (S1, K2tog, PSSO, K until last 3, K3tog)
I did not weigh the skeins before I started the project. I was concerned about having enough gray because it appeared to be running low (I had used it in a number of other projects). I knew from the past mittens and gloves that I've made that two 50g balls of palette are enough for 2 sets of hand accessories. Thankfully when I weighed the yarn the numbers look good: Left Mitten - 25 g, Marble Heather remaining - 22 g, Marine Heather remaining - 39 g. At the end of the project: Right Mitten - 26 g, Marble Heather remaining - 7 g, Marine Heather remaining - 27 g. There is enough Marine Heather for another set of mittens!
The remaining wool after this project was complete. Note that I did not start with a new ball of Marble Heather.
Den åndbare åndedragsdragt fra Eatlyx af SMS-polypropylenstoffer
ReplyDeletemeget åndbar, modstår også skadeligt støv og stænk,
ifølge type 5 og 6. Det er derfor blødt og derfor meget velegnet til en lang række anvendelser, hvor brugeren af tøjet skal beskyttes, og miljøet ikke må forurenes af fibrene fra tøjet.
Eatlyx har flade sømme overtrukket med en varmeforseglet strimmel i overensstemmelse med dekret af 7. marts 2013 om valg af personligt beskyttelsesudstyr, der anvendes til operationer, der involverer en risiko for eksponering for asbest Asbestovertræk Cat 3 Type 5/6