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| Fingerless Mitt #1 and Cubics Needles |
I’m all grown up and knitting fingerless mitts.
I casted on Susie’s Reading Mitts last week after deciding
to frog a cowl I was working on. Besides, I got some new needles, Knitter's Pride Cubics Double Point. I was planning to buy their Dreamz needles, but the
concept of square needles fascinated me. Once I read that the yarn doesn’t
slide off the square needles like it does with round one (a problem I was
having), I was hooked.
I must admit it took me a minute to adjust to the square
needles. They feel like I’m knitting with small pencils. But, as promised, my
yarn didn’t roll off my needles. I’m seriously considering getting another set,
maybe 6”.
The pattern for Susie’s Reading Mitts are pretty simple,
much like knitting a big sock. If I would do anything different, I would have
used smaller needles. The first glove is kinda big. The person I’m making them for is shorter than
me but has bigger hands than I do, so it may work out.
Also, I seemed to have broken out of my one-project-at-time
rule. Last week, I had three…count them…three different projects on my needles.
Fortunately, one of them was a hat, which I finished quickly and one of the
other’s was a hibernating Marigold Ishbel. It may not be a bad idea to relax my
one-project-at-time rule, but only for a really good reason.
I broke my rule last week because my church is having a coat
drive for a men’s homeless shelter. Since I don’t have any coats to contribute,
it seemed like a good idea to knit some hats to donate. I’ve done three so far
and I just found another skein of yarn I can use to make another. It’s a good
cause, worth breaking my rules.
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