Remember how I took every form of transport known to man a fortnight ago? Well, I was missing just one thing, suburban trains. But today I got to remedy that, knitting my way to Dandenong for work. Yay? My Char jumper has been knitting up ridiculously fast. It's easy, pleasant and a well written pattern. I'm reading Rachael Herron's latest book The Ones Who Matter Most . It's a good read so far, family centered fiction, easy to read but still emotionally challenging. I'm listening to Evelyn Waugh's Men At Arms . I'm enjoying it, I didn't really know what to expect, but some of it reminds me of Catch 22, in that it catalogues the absurdities of war and bureaucracy. The narrator has the perfect upper crust English accent and I'm very pleased it's the first of a trilogy. And that's another week of reading, knitting and catching trains everywhere for me. Do pop along to Ginny's blog to see what she and the rest of the yarnalong ...
I started the first thumb while watching the original Flatliners movie. It is quite suspenseful and tension making. For some reason this mitten had been designed with "lice" on one side of the thumb, but not on the palm of the hand. I decided to follow the pattern, at least I thought I was following the pattern. I wasn't sure which side was circles and which side was lice. I had a look at the pattern picture, which clearly (to my mind) showed the thumb showing circles from the wrong side, so that's how I knit it:
In the morning I found that I had misread the pattern and misunderstood the photo. And here's my dirty secret. I'm not going to fix it, even though it's wrong, wrong, wrong. There are other problems with these gloves: the thumb placement on the first one, pictured in the left photo- is weirdly central, so it pulls the seam into weird positions. There is only one seam (which is on me) The cuffs curl and are looser than the rest, even on the glove where the tension is fine. If I was going to start to fix these, I would rip them out completely and start again with a different pattern and a different colourwork technique. Now I think of it, that might be the best plan for these.
Well, it's a small world! Kathy, the designer of your mitten pattern was a mate of mine when I lived in SF. She began the Monday night knit group 'Chicks with Sticks SF', the very group that inspired me to begin the Richmond Knitters in Melbourne. There you go! She no longer lives in SF.
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