20 November 2012 -

• Cast on using Kitchener’s Cast On. I cast on with waste yarn, using #6 size needle. I picked up with #4 size needle (as the directions state). I found these directions don’t refer to round knitting, so alternating rows have to be purled with knit stitches slipped with yarn in back. Once I understood this things went easier.

• Finished cast on and began 1st inch of the twisted rib pattern with #6 DPNs.

• Also I found the gauge listed in the pattern (24ST = 4”) won’t work with #3 needles. Jen (at my LYS) said I am just knitting much tighter. My glove turned out to be waay too small on #3s. The gauge I ended up with was more like 32ST = 4” (8ST/“). So instead of 6” around my glove was more like 4½” around. More like a pre-teen sized glove, instead. I am getting gauge (plus 2ST) with #6 sized needles. Seems strange to me, but Jen didn’t seem to think this is strange at all. I wouldn’t have thought a size up or down to be strange, but over three full needle sizes up seems quite odd to me.

• Got ladders with the #6 straights. Switched to 11” Balene circular. Found 11” too long for only 36ST. Switched to two 11” circs. The LYS had no more #6 circs, also my gauge still needed to lose 2ST so I just got a #7 circ. Now I’m knitting in the round with the two circs, a #6 11” & a #7 11”. This seems to be achieving the 24ST gauge for the pattern. Yay.

22 November 2012 - Happy Thanksgiving.

• I had a bit of trouble with the pattern, I should end up with ten increase stitches. Five per side. I had to do the last increase again to get the right amount of stitches.

• I shifted the thumb stitches to another circ, using it as a holder. Last time I did this pattern I used a few rows of waste yarn.

• I am still getting ladders even with the two circs. I guess the short 11” wires are stretching things out enough to cause this.

• Finished main part of 1st glove. Need to do thumb. Bound off with pass over decreases, using a #8 gauge needle for loose tension. I decided on simplicity, since I did the tubular bind off on my last project. Comparing the tubular bind off with a large gauge needle bind off, the tubular bind off actually turned out to be tighter.

• Cast on second glove, using the Kitchener’s cast on. Tried to do 1” of twisted rib, switched to stockinette. Now it looks like I didn’t really rib enough on the cuff, but hey this is a hand made item, so live with it.

24 November 2012 - Finished second glove, only need to weave ends in. Still having laddering issues. The standard bind off (knit one, pass over) with a #8 needle seems to be more stretchy and much less work than the tubular bind off. I think when I do this pattern again that will be my bind off.

26 November 2012 - Ends woven in. Finished.