Caroline can't knit fingers on gloves but she can make mits!
I tried, I really tried to make gloves with fingers and after sixteen or so tries, I gave up and made these easy-as-pie fingerless mitts with a thumb! I'm going to embroider something on them and give them out as gifts.So, am I missing a secret for making the fingers? it just made me crazy and the stitches kept falling off the needles when I was trying to do them in the round. Maybe I should try on two needles? Or maybe I should just make more of these quick mitts!
posted by Caroline at 6:38 PM
5 Comments:
Caroline, much sympathy on the finger problem! I have issues with socks so I can understand your frustration.
Something I did for my daughter when she was in the marching band was to knit fingerless mitts and then add a flap that could be pulled over the fingers to make a mitten. It worked great for outdoor rehearsals in cold weather. When she was playing she took the flap off; when she was just marching she flipped it back over her freezing digits. And it avoided the finger knitting frustration.
OH what a great idea! Does the flap attach or do you just tuck it in?
Caroline, one word: beads! I jazzed up a pair of Fetching with a few artfully (okay, maybe not so artfully) applied beads interspersed among the cables and it worked great. (Silver beads on black cashmerino aran.)
Caroline, the flap was attached at the back of the hand. You can add a button and loop at the end to keep it from flapping when it's not over the fingers. However, my daughter didn't want the button; she said she'd never use it.
These look terrific! And I second Nancy's suggestion about the flap; I did the same for my clarinetist.
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