As Husband mentioned in a comment in last week's post, I have indeed started his gloves. I've only cast them on twice now.
The first time I frogged, I wasn't happy with how the two colors were looking. Specifically, I didn't like how the purl stitches were looking. I frogged and then dug up some information on the internet about doing ribbing with two colors. I needed to hold both colors at the same time to keep the tension constant, which wasn't what I was doing. I kept dropping the color I wasn't using and I think that's why it was looking so sloppy.
Last night, I had Husband try it on. It was too tight. Way too tight.
I liked how the stitches were looking but yeah...Husband barely got his hand through it. It's going to be frogged and cast onto a larger set of needles.
I didn't get a chance to work on Browncoat but here's a picture of it:
Finally, the Mint Twist socks. I added a few rounds, but not a lot of progress. There are pictures nonetheless. I'm including a picture of my kitchner stitch that got complimented.
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| Pardon the blurriness. I was tired. |
The mitts with two colours look fabulous, good on you for persevering and mastering it - hopefully the larger needles will do the job!! The socks are still looking great and that is a lovely Kitchener stitch!
ReplyDeleteI love the two colours in the gloves and hope it really works out now with the bigger needles, I really like the pattern of brown coat and look forward to a spread out shot of it. Really neat kitchener stitch!
ReplyDeletehow frustrating having to cast on several times... it will be worth it though and the colours are looking fab x
ReplyDeleteI like the look of two-colour ribbing but I don't find it very stretchy. Your tension looks great. And yes, your kitchener stitch is invisible so well done!
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