The Yarn:

I love yarn like Amazing and Kureyon, but seeing as they are not vegan I’ve been out of luck so far (=_=). I was ecstatic to discover the Bernat Mosaic yarn because that’s about as close as I can get to Noro without dyeing my own yarn (I’m thinkin’ about it…).

I’ve been dying to use this yarn, but 1). have been hoarding it, 2). couldn’t decide on the right pattern to use, and 3). have been hoarding it.

I was really surprised when my yarn pulled apart after a couple of rows. I am a tight knitter and I often break my (nemesis) Homespun. After that, I made sure to keep a very loose tension and didn’t have any problems.

By a complete fluke, I managed to get the stripes more or less identical between the two armwarmers. I stopped at just the right point on the first armwarmer. (^=^)

The first armwarmer was knitted with few incidents. On the second armwarmer, however, I ran into some trouble. The magenta section right after the green became extremely thin. This worried me about how the glove would hold up given how easily I had broken the yarn.

After some internal debate, I ripped back to the green/magenta color change and continued with a thicker section of the magenta. It looked passable, but there was a more definite line than a gradual colour change.

I had just gotten into the the purple section when I encounter “The Knot”. I took the time to wind the yarn into a ball while I contemplated my options. At one point I thought about starting over and working the stripes in the opposite order to the first armwarmer. Alas, I didn’t have enough yarn.

I looked closely at the end of the spliced/knotted end of the yarn and realized it was at the green/magenta color change. Perfect! I ripped back several inches to where I had originally spliced the magenta yarn and joined the new end of the green/magenta yarn, continued with the pattern and thus got my nearly perfectly identically striped armwarmers.

Despite the hassle, I do like the finished project and the yarn wasn’t too bad. You just need to be careful. I certainly wouldn’t cable with it…

The Pattern and Alterations:

The pattern is simple and so very, very easy-peasy.

I had expected more of a challenge and an opportunity to try picking up stitches for the thumb. Still in the dark about that mysterious process. Guess I’ll find out soon enough.

I cast on with size 10 needles, then relocated the stitches to size 7 needles for the ribbing. After that, I knitted onto size 9 needles for the ST section. Back to the 7s for the final ribbing.

I don’t like a bunch of ribbing, so I choose to only do 2” instead of 3.5”. And apparently I have a big head and tiny arms. I knit 8” instead of the 9” written before starting the thumb gusset. The armwarmers still go all the way to my elbow. The final ribbing was knit as stated.

The pattern calls for M1 increases, but that left gaping holes. I told myself it would work, but just as I started the final ribbing I tried on the armwarmers.

It wasn’t happening. Ugly, ugly.

I (very carefully) ripped back to first increase row and replaced the M1 with KFB. Much better.

Errata:

Ah, the elephant in the room. As many (many) other users have noted, there is still a major error with the pattern around the thumb gusset area.

If you knit until there are 14 stitches between markers, you have 40 stitches total, not 42 stitches.

I was going to bind off the 12 stitches as stated, but that would leave 30 stitches, which some of you know does not divide evenly by fours.

I also contemplated going another pattern round until I reached 42 stitches, but decided that would make the thumb too long.

So I decided to go with the suggestion by Ravelry user flowingwater on her project. I bound off 10 stitches instead of the written 12 stitches. I then continued with the pattern as stated.

Worked fine for me.