27-12-2018

Frogged the first run because
(a) it felt big,
(b) measuring my yarns’ combined gauge showed closer to the pattern than originally thought, and
(c) the recipient has a smaller hand.

Starting again:

• I had emailed Terry who responded that it doesn’t matter which lifted make I do, and
• I plan to stick with the pattern’s stitch number,
• but will change the cuff:

(i) the showy brim cuff I did first time proved to be one-sided (well the pattern did say that, but I forgot that bit)
(ii) unfortunately the seismic rib is only patterned to knit flat, so I am trying to work out how to do it in the round.

31-12-2018

So I did work out how to do the seismic rib in the round but decided it wasn’t really suitable for a mitt cuff to my liking. Showy brim will do.

Kicking myself I forgot to take a photo when I had reached past the thumb and was about to do the ending bit. Because of course at the end I decided not to do a grey knit round before going into ribbing, didn’t like the effect and completely stuffed up trying to undo it. Then I couldn’t work out how to pick up one of those rounds and of course had not used a Lifeline.

01-01-2019

While back at the start I looked for and found a stretchier cast on. “Super stretchy” seems to be working well.

After the showy rib (which now looks like rib on both sides!?!) which ended p1 k2tog I knit a row in my multicolor, then the grey k1 k1b, multi k1b k1…

21-04-2019

So I don’t remember which bind off I tried but it certainly wasn’t stretchy enough. I also finished off that grey so we’ll have to do a pair with a another colour.

I believe the super stretchy cast on was good although another option might be the Italian rib cast on https://youtu.be/eWWw7tJl9ZM

21-04-2019

Okay, so the Italian rib cast on in the video results in k1p1, yet the showy rib brim needs a purl to start. So I am doing a purl-start Italian cast on: loop under toward the pointy finger instead of the thumb, then the thumbward create. Is this “Italian” effectively the same as alternating?

21-04-2019

This time I want to record as I go: As last time, after reducing back to last row of showy brim which goes p1k2tog, I switched to multicolour for a knit round.

Then started bicolour pattern with grey for K1K1B .

22-04-2019

As before, I’ve frogged a few times to get things just right.

In one of my froggings I switched from 5mm to 4mm needles. It is turning out smaller than my first go. Is that the needles, the wool, or has the first stretched from multiple wearings?

The Thumb!

Last time I wasn’t happy building around just 1 stitch, particularly just a loop, so I am going to try building around 3 and provisionally cast on 3 in thumbpit. My sketches still assume 4 increases, so it might end up too roomy for the thumb.

If the thumb ends up too wide, I might:

• (a) build around 2 although that would mean the thumb would not neatly appear between 2 grey stripes.

• or (b) build around 1 and provisionally cast on 3 in thumbpit