Today turned out to be almost a 90 minute wait. 45 minutes into the wait, it suddenly occurred to me that it was time to join the thumb gusset. In a blinding flash I realized: no scissors, no yarn needle. I was at the crossroads of a mammoth choice:
- Stop knitting
- Figure out a way to carry on
Choice 2 how to carry on. It came to me to bind off the stitches of the thumb gusset; join the glove in the round and continue knitting. Lo and behold it worked!
The weather has turned quite crisp quite early. We usually have a spate of summer days mid-October but this year that weather pattern has given us a miss. There has been just enough briskness in the air to get through the afternoon with a light jacket most days.
That, of course, put me in mind of needing another pair of fingerless gloves and knitting down the ole stash. I brought out one pack of the Knit Picks overspun yarn (Peruvian wool, sport weight) in my all time favorite colourway: Forest Heather. Unlike lot of Knit Picks' heathered colourways, Forest Heather is heathered with strands of yellow instead of grey. I learned from the Merlot Heather overspun, that the grey heathered yarns leave me looking washed out. I knitted a beret using Palette in the colourway last year; and was able to pick up skeins of the overspun yarn in a stash busting sale.
I'm not using a pattern, just size 3 dpns, which is yielding 10 rows per inch. Cast on 36 stitches. 10 rows of k2p2 ribbing and then stockingnette. Knit 5 inches to wrist; 10 rows of k2p2; 20 rows stockingnette before starting thumb gusset. 18 rows for the thumb gusset and then the magnificent bind off and join. 10 more rows of stockingnette before the 10 rows of k2p2, which will hopefull take the glove to my knuckles.
The plan from there is to knit the covertible hood for the gloves and finish the thumb before moving on to glove 2.
I finished the Thermopolyae Hat on Sunday. I used Knit Picks Palette in the Oregon Coast colourway. I don't have a yarn scale but I reckon the hat used about 1.25 skeins or about 300 yards. It's like wearing a Brioche. I think it sort of captures the puffy trend. The puffiness was achieved by casting on 100 stitches on size 0 needles. Here's the recipe:
Started with 100 stitches k1tbl p1 for 1” on Size 0
K 1 row
K1 k1fb 200 stitches
K 1 row K1 k1fb 300 stiches
K 8 rows
K 8 rows on size 8
K1slip1 pwise yin back
K2 slip 1 pwise yin back
The decreases were done on the knit rows k1 k2tog until the last five rows which were done k1 k2tog until there were 4 stitches; snip the yarn and pull through the remaining stitches and weave the ends.
The closeup shows what a pretty colourway Oregon Coast is.
