These little rose-pink strips have fascinated me the last couple of days.
Toward the end of last week I was helping a fairly new knitter who wanted to make a pair of fingerless-mitts, and I agreed to get her started. In my head, I was thinking simple stockinette stitch, but no, she had a pattern for beautiful lace gloves that had captured her fancy, and she really wanted to jump right in and knit them. The pattern called for a separate band at the top of the glove, which is knit flat, and it seemed like this would also be a good test piece to see how difficult she would find the pattern, so I knit a couple of repeats while she watched to get her started. Then I sent her off on her way. I will see her again later in the week.
Saturday I finished knitting the pieces to the blue/gray sweater, and I was thinking about those fingerless mitts. I didn't have the pattern, or know its source, but I was pretty sure that I remembered it, and thought I might knit a couple of bands for a future pair of gloves while it was still in my head. You see the results above.
These will be sewn together at the ends and then I will pick up stitches along the flat edge and knit, in the round, down toward the hands. I see that both patterns are upside down. The pointy jagged edge will be the top of the gloves, pointing up toward the elbow. I am looking forward to finishing these as I am rather fond of these top borders, but I haven't yet looked at my stitch books and chosen a lace pattern for the body of the gloves.
There is no rush. I am sincerely hoping that the time for fingerless mitts will soon be over, although we are still getting nights in the 30s and the days have not been consistently warm.
In the meantime, I think I should go fish that blue-gray sweater out of my knitting bag and get it blocked so that it can be assembled and finished. We are having perfect weather for that combination of linen and wool and lightweight layers.
