The Central Park

I'm finished knitting the body of Jessi's sweater. I'm now on the hood and button bands! Wooooo!! Hoping to get a lot done with it this weekend and then....focus on my other two crazy involved sweaters!

Music Gauntlets

I designed these because I'm a pianist with tendinitis and I need something to keep my forearms warm to keep it from flaring up. They're elbow length with ribbing at the elbow, wrist, and palm. Since they're designed for musicians, the fingers don't get covered as in normal gauntlet/fingerless gloves.

Music Gauntlets

Materials:
-Two (2) 50g balls of Misti Alpaca Sport Weight
-One set of size 3 double point needles or SIZE TO OBTAIN GAUGE
-4 Buttons
-Tapestry needle
-Sewing needle
-Thread
-Scrap yarn

Gauge:
-9 sts per 1"

Make Two

Forearm and Wrist:
-Co 48 sts. Divide evenly onto 4 needles
-Work in 2x2 ribbing for 3 1/2"
-Work stockinette for 4"
-Work 2x2 ribbing for 7 rounds

Thumb Gusset:
-Knit 3 sts, PM, inc, k1, inc, PM
-Work 2 rounds even
-*Knit to after marker, inc, k to end, inc before marker. Work 2 round even*
Repeat between * until 19 sts between markers
Place these 19 sts on a holder.

Palm:
-CO 1 and join remaining sts
-Work 2x2 ribbing for 4 rows
-BO following pattern

Thumb:
-Pick up 19 sts from holder and join
-Picking up 2 sts more, knit round, K2tog extra 2 sts.
-Work 2x2 ribbing for 4 rows
-BO following pattern

Finishing:
-Weave in ends
-Sew on two buttons on bottom wrist ribbing


There you go. My first "published" pattern.

If anyone decides to knit these up and finds anything wrong or confusing in the pattern, please let me know!

Finished!

I finished my Music Gauntlets! Woooooo! Pictures and pattern to follow when I'm not up to my eyeballs in homework.

A Set of Goals

So I'm home for the weekend and of course I'm at my mom's. And I'm now making a goal/to-do list:

By December I need to:
-Finish Jessica's sweater
-Get a good chunk of work done on my Dale sweater
-Have at least the back and front done of my Kors sweater.
-Finish my Rocky Horror socks
-Finish my gaunlets
-Finish the scarf I've been working on for the last year.
-Finish David's Led Zeppelin chart.

By/In January I need to:
-Start my swim suit for Spring Break. (Cascade Fixation in Black and Turquoise)
-Design and start Blake's ALK3 convertible mittens.
-Being my 2nd Wallaby.

Whew, that's not much is it?

Setbacks

Unfortunately I need to learn to not knit when I'm tired. I'm officially now set back on my above-the-knee socks and Jazzy's sweater. Sigh....that's what I get. I also have done no work on my gauntlets. I suck at life. :-(

Back to school

I'm all moved back to school! Hurray! It's been a very busy week so I haven't got a lot of knitting done. But it is football season so I'll catch up! I'll have pictures in the next few days of the finished Music Gauntlets with the pattern so check back!

Trauma: Life as a Knitter

This is a cautionary tale to all the knitter's out there:

So in great desperation I tried to finish the ALK3 sweater before I leave for school, which is tomorrow.

I had one zipper band sewn on. My mom did the other because she was tired of watching me struggle. I weaved all the ends in. And it was ready to be blocked. So I put it in the washing machine. Hand wash setting, yarn-safe detergent, warm water. I took it out immediately after it finished. I took it up to my mom's work room and blocked it. A few hours later, I had my mom check on how I did as it was my first time blocking.

And what do I see?

The skull in the middle of my Alkaline Trio logo is pink.

That's right. Pink.

So in a fit of panic I thew it back in the washing machine this time on cold with a Shout Color Catcher in hopes of pulling out the pink. I took it out and it was worse. Much much worse.

So after a brief moment of tears, my mother in her infinite wisdom decided to pour water and soap over the skull and blot out the pink using a color catcher. And it worked. T

Thank heavens.

So the moral of the story: Cascade 220 in Ruby and Cascade 220 Superwash in White are NOT friends.

I'll put up pictures when the zipper is on and it alllll done.