Oh, lookie what came in the mail from Jimmy Beans! My heart leaps when I get a package from that place. Madelintosh DK in a beautiful green, Moorland. I have so wanted to knit with this yarn. It’s a superwash merino wool and everyone raves about it. I’m planning on making Julie’s Stockholm Scarf as soon as I get most of my Christmas knitting out of the way. I can’t wait to get it on the needles!
I’m continuing on with my Christmas knitting, and I’m not slowing down for summer! I’ve just finished these lovely things – lined mittens for one of my sisters-in-law. These are Adrian Bizilia’s “Flocked Mittens” and they are a lot of fun to knit.
I lined them with super thick Brushed Suri in a cotton candy pink color – they make the mitten so warm. I knitted these using Magic Loop and because the pattern calls for a worsted weight, they knit up fairly quickly. A welcome change after knitting with so much fingering weight yarn for a while there.
The pattern calls for a braided edge, which I love, but in the pattern it was done in one color. I changed it to two colors, which I think is more striking. If you do that, be sure to make the previous row a k1 MC, k1 CC instead of just one color, so the first row of the braided edge is correct.
They also have a picot edge which is a nice detail.
These mittens should be knit in a light color and a dark color, for strong contrast. If you don’t the pattern isn’t going to show up well.
Pattern: Flocked Mittens
Needles: US #4 , circular, Addi Lace
Yarn for Mittens: Berocco Ultra Alpaca in Pastel Pink and Duncan
Yarn for Lining: Blue Sky Alpaca Brushed Suri in Pink Lemonade
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When I started knitting about 22 years ago, I knitted a lot of things for my first son but I also knitted a lot of sweaters for me, something that I don’t do anymore. I don’t knit hardly any garments, just mittens, scarves, hats and socks. When I look back at some of the old sweaters I used to knit, I really still like them. I’m going to do a series of posts documenting some of these old sweaters.
The first one is a Reindeer Sweater that is knitted in wool. The pattern is from an old book I bought 22 years ago called “Picture Knits” by Lory Cosgrove. It’s such a nice book. The patterns have adult size versions and kid versions. There’s a lot of old vintage type patterns.
All these patterns are knitted flat, which I wouldn’t like much now because I pretty much knit everything in the round. In fact, I can’t believe I knitted all these sweaters flat, on straight needles. Egad. All that color stranding purlwise! I wouldn’t do that now, I can tell you.
Just a little sneak peek at what’s on the Magic Loops right now . . . and I’m having so much fun making them! Braided and picot edge, wonderful pattern. More to come. . .
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