A Mitten
January 22nd, 2007 at 8:58 am (gloves)
We have a mitten:
And the back of the mitten too:
What, you thought I only knit the top side? :)
It’s Anemoi by Eunny. The design is absolutely fabulous! it took me about 4 different tries to get the color combination I wanted. I was trying a variegated yarn instead of the rust-red, and while it was pretty, it just wasn’t what I was looking for.
I have one issue with the pattern in general, and because of that I might need to reknit this mitten. The cuff is just too tight! The pattern recommends using size 0’s to knit the cuff. As you can see, the cuff is corrugated, using two colors. This means it has no elasticity whatsoever. If I had knit it on size 0’s, I don’t think I would have been able to get the durned thing on at all!
I went up to size 2.75mm needles to knit this cuff, and while I can get it over my hand, it’s a bit tight. Then in order to make the hand of the mitten not gargantuan, I dropped down to a 2.25mm needle to do the colorwork. In between the cuff and the hand patterning, you increase 12 stitches, which is quite a lot. On the left mitten I’m casting on 8 more stitches, which I hope will give me enough room in the cuff to easily put it on and off. Then I’ll increase the final 4 stitches right after the cuff.
I can’t decide if want to try to block this mitten before I decide if I’ll keep it this way or not. It was quite fun to knit, and went pretty fast once I got past the entirely fussy cuff. I’d be interested in finding out if others had this same issue with an overly-tight cuff, or if it was just me.
marta said,
January 30th, 2007 at 6:20 am
I’ve lost my mittens! The ones that were my very first two color project over 15 years ago :( You’d better hide your Anemoi pair this weekend…piratey mittens aren’t finished yet and we’re in for an “Arctic Blast!”
Joann said,
February 4th, 2007 at 10:06 am
So did you finish the new cuff yet? :) I was wondering how you were going to cut the old one off and graft the new one on. I’d have to have a couple shots of bourbon first!!