All Blog Posts Tagged 'gloves' (5)

The Terri Shea book "Selbuvotter" has delightful gloves and mittens, all done in variants of the Norwegian Selbu Rose. You can use combinations of Knitpicks Palette yarn, which comes in 51 colors and costs no more than $2.19 a ball. Most take only 2 balls of yarn with LEFTOVERS after you knit the glo… Continue

The whole family (at least those who are in town) have hit the slopes for skiing/snowboarding, and I have a chance to clean up and knit. I've been working on some gloves for my granddaughter, Alex. She picked out the yarn from the choices I gave her on the website, and I started them as soon as she got here. I have one finished (except for weaving in the ends) and the other well underway.… Continue

The bank promised me $25 for a referral..... I was planning on buying a lot of WotA with it to make gloves for my siblings. I had my order filled out all ready when I found out that I was not going to get the money after all. This was quite frustrating, and slightly irritating, seeing as they had over 3 months to tell me this, and multiple chances to point this out. BUT I am human, and I make mistakes. I really have no place critiquing them for making a mistake. My mom offered to give me the mon… Continue

I didn't realize until last night that I hadn't edited my blog in over a month... nearly two. After the hoodie, I knitted a while on a shrug I started last winter, but it was going way to slow. Started the Suri dream throw, but thought it was too light weight and airy. Then I started a shaw using the Suri yarn. It is about 1/4 finished. Then I picked up some yarn I got on the recommendation of a knitting friend, but it was too stiff for the sweater I wanted to knit.So I used two skeins to knit… Continue

Since we just launched the brand new colors of Palette, one of my favorite yarns, I’ve been anxious to use it, but I don’t exactly want to make a big stranded sweater in the middle of summer. The solution: colorful mittens & gloves. Robin Melanson’s Knitting New Mittens & Gloves has quite a few great colorwork designs… Continue