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Jared Flood Gloves – Almost Done

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Jared Flood Glove Show-Offs

Jared Flood Glove Show-Offs

Check out the great gloves those of us in the Jared Flood Gloves Knitalong at K2Tog are coming up with. These gloves appeared in the Winter 2008/2009 Vogue Knitting magazine and are a follow-up to Flood’s mittens, which appeared in the Fall issue of the magazine and which Ellen, K2Tog’s owner, knit up for display in the store.

There are about 12 of us in the class, all experienced knitters and about half of use store employees. We all thought these gloves would be very hard. WRONG! They are not difficult, just, as Ellen says, “fiddly.” You need to be comfortable with cables and double point needles. You can see my first post about these gloves, with more pictures, here.

Kiem's Glove

Kiem's Glove

One of the women in the class, Kiem, decided to take matters into her own gloves – uh, hands – when she decided to dump the pattern’s directions for knitting the palm of the glove in garter stitch and did stockinette stich instead. THIS, we all thought, IS MUCH BETTER. The garter stitch seems to make your hand appear huge – like the Hamburger Helper guy, one stitcher said. So if you decide to do these gloves, try this. It’s nicer than the garter.

Some folks did not like the way the tops of the fingers came together, with you slipping the yarn through the last 8 stitches and drawing it tight. Some said they would have decreased another row, down to 4 stitches, and then drawn the yarn through. Others would have used kitchener stitch.

We all enjoyed being together so much and knitting at this level of difficulty so much that we are talking about other project sto pursue as a knitalong on Thursday nights. Stay posted – and check K2Tog’s website for details.

Kiem's Glove - detail

Kiem's Glove - detail

In the meantime, many of us at the store and in my Friday group have decided to knit the Dropped Stitch Scarf in the new Spring/Summer 2009 Vogue Knitting. Here is what I have on that so far:

Dropped Stitch Scarf - and Gracie

Dropped Stitch Scarf - and Gracie

Jared Flood Glove – Left Glove

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p3260089You know, this just isn’t that hard! I saw these in Vogue Knitting‘s most recent issue and thought WOW, but also NO WAY. But doing them as a knitalong at K2Tog has been not very hard and certainly rewarding. What do you think? Look at what some of my fellow knitters have come up with.

Also, be sure and check the errata before you tackle these. There are a few corrections on some fingers and thumbs. And if you want to lengthen these gloves, we figured out at the knitalong that you can do it at rows 10-12 with another four row repeat. And you don’t need SIX dpns – just put your palm and back-of-the-hand stitches on stitch holders until they are needed for the finger your are working. Silly Jared! Maybe he has stock in a knitting needle company.

Here are some of my classmates’ gloves:

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p32600901Speaking of knitting needles! At the last Jared Flood knitalong, a couple came into the store while we were working and I overheard them speaking Italian. Well, I am off to Italy for the entire month of May (hate me, but seethe quietly, as my friend Victoria said she was doing) and I wanted to know how to say “knitting needles.” I approached the man and asked if he was Italian – tho I would have known because of the utter boredom he expressed in his answer: “Si.” I said i was going to Italy for a month (again, he barely opened his eyes) and I wanted to know how to say “knitting needles.” he said “bligetty bloggety boopedy do” and then said, “I write it for you.” So here, friends, is how to say “knitting needles” in Italian:

“ferri per fare la maglia”

which, roughly translated means “needles for to make the knitted fabric.” COOL! And “yarn” is “filato” and “wool” is “lana.” So I have all the basics now – “I would like to have a glass of red wine and some knitting needles with yarn.” Per favore.

Koigu Socks

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Koigu Sock Number 2, Day 1

Koigu Sock Number 2, Day 1

I thought I’d start small on this blog – and it don’t get much smaller for me than a pair of handknit socks. These are knit with a Koigu hand-painted yarn on size 2 needles. I have had the first one knit for – oh, let’s just agree that it’s been long time and I should have done the second one way before this. That, or hopped around on one foot. Which makes me think of my favorite television scene of all time, the All in the Family episode where Archie and Mike (aka Meathead) are debating whether or not it would be wiser, in the case of a housefire in the middle of the night, to don a sock and a sock and a shoe and a shoe OR a sock and shoe and a sock and a shoe. I looked for the video on You Tube but could not find it. Watch this one instead. .

So, above you see sock two, day one. In the picture is all I need – yarn, needles  and Diet Coke.

Here’s the sock, day two, after an evening of knitting in front of an episode of  “LOST”. With that show, you gotta knit something you don’t have to look at – like the K2, P2 rib of a sock, say – so you don’t miss anything important. Or a red herring. Love that show.

Koigu Sock Two, Day 2

Koigu Sock Two, Day 2

These socks are probably destined for my Etsy site. I have sold two pairs of socks on Etsy so far, which has been very gratifying. Both have been plain socks  – no fancypants stitches – and I think I’ll try my hand at designing a pair and posting them there soon.

Now, I do not know how much more of this I will get done in the next week or so. Tonight I am off to my local yarn store, K2Tog, where I will be taking a Jared Flood Gloves knitalong class. I work at K2Tog two days a week (Friday and Saturday) and most of my classmates will be friends and/or customers. Should be fun. I’ll include pictures of the I-cord cast on (!!!!) when I get it done.

Okay, not very exciting for a first entry, but there’s better to come. I have just finished designing my first-ever piece of knitwear (fingerless gloves) and will include pictures and process here soon. I also just came up with a new set of greeting cards, which I’ll share directions for.