02-11-2018

Yup. The expert who comes to #Yak&Yarn @ Plaza library Hoppers Crossing confirmed my reading of the chart. My spreadsheet let me chart out the whole pattern, as written, then determine where knit stitches should be shifted to be done between the markers rather than before or after.

Knitting the largest, I will knit 35 before markering, and 5 more before starting the book’s chart.

I did want to stockinette rows before the cable and lace; but I would have to continue adjusting the spreadsheet to be sure how that would work; and I want to get my hands back on the wool so will leave further changes for now.

02-11-2018 looking ahead

If my spreadsheet correctly captures the instructions for the large the thumb gusset will be slipped on to waste yarn at the end of Row 32.

Checking it all again, I am reminded of my other problem with this pattern: the thumb gusset starts at end of round. So the instruction for Inc Rnd doesn’t make sense because its last instruction after increasing inside gusset markers is to “work in patt to end of rnd.” But the round had ended at start of gusset!

Same problem with instructions Hand!

04-11-2018

Finally content enough with my Chart fingerless mitts Dalkey Googlesheet guessing what might have been meant here and there, good to go.

So… , 6 rounds after miss-cabling (holding in front instead of behind), I learn how to recognise whether a decrease was ssk or k2tog, and how to tink the ssk.

05-11-2018

Great, all done by 2am, though I did not check how to make that bind off neat in the round before cutting the thread.

It was too large. Now I see why people check the gauge!

This one will stay unfinished until I run out of other projects, and either find someone with a hand that large, or a reason to go to the bother of frogging it to go smaller.