Paws
December 25th, 2006 at 10:10 am (gloves)
The office I work in now has a few heating issues. Mainly the specific office that I share with another person has no heat registers in it at all. The other offices around us do, but not ours. To combat this (and rather than getting up every 15 mins to do jumping jacks), I whipped up a pair of fingerless mitts:
Yarn: Mountain Colors Weaver’s Wool
Pattern: Pop Up Paws
Gauge: who knows, but somewhere near 5 st/inch
Mistakes: many
The pattern is really great. I decided I didn’t want the thickness of actual stubby fingers while typing; so I just did a simple ribbing at the end. The pattern has you do some short rows to give you more room on the knuckles and on the index finger area, vs the pinky - the mitt on the left has short rows, the one on the right doesn’t. I decided the short rows were too fussy and I just wanted to get ‘em done last night. I also added two rows of k1p1 on the top of the thumb to prevent any potentional rolling there.
They aren’t perfect, but they will work, and that’s the most important part.
PS. Merry Christmas!
