Landra’s Cuff
November 9th, 2004 at 8:06 am (gloves)
Last night I ignored Hardangervidda, Mike’s secret socks, Katie’s new pair of socks, Katie’s sweater and I’m sure several other projects that I don’t even remember starting to knit on Landra’s Gloves from "Folk Knitting in Estonia : A Garland of Symbolism, Tradition, and Technique". I’ve made quite a bit of progress (knitting during Monday Night Football, which I could care less about, will do that for you). Here’s the cuff (with pattern in book in the background)
And here I am modeling it:
This shot also shows the cool double cast on edge pretty well. It really adds alot of texture to the edge.
So, is it too big? I don’t mind that the cuff part isn’t totally snug, but definately want the glove part to be a snug (not tight, and not loose) fit. I’m going to keep going on this one to see how it comes out. I will also measure my gauge at some point (I know, blasphemy!) to see if I’m getting a tighter gauge than the pattern calls for.
The pattern says it will fit a hand that is 8.5" around. I measured, and my hand is 7.5" at the widest portion. That’s a pretty big difference, so we’ll see if my knitting is automatically compensating. If not, I have two choices:
- Use smaller needles (not likely since I’m already using 0’s)
- Reduce the number of stitches. This is problematic because the larger pattern on the cuff is a 14 stitch repeat. I’m currently using 70 stitches, and if I go down one size, then I’ll only have 56 stitches. That seems like it would be too small.
Mandella said,
November 9th, 2004 at 3:19 pm
Nice cuffs! I think the colours you are using look great.
jill said,
November 10th, 2004 at 7:04 am
pretty pretty! I hope they fit, no idea how to help you with that. Do they call them UFO’s in knitting too?