Don’t you dislike whining blog posts? 🙂 Me too . . but some times I just have to whine so please bear with me.
I so avoid fiddly, aggravating things when knitting. I don’t mind making mittens but gloves .. I had never made them but I knew from imagining how the fingers would be made that I would detest making them. Part of Loopy Academy this semester is making gloves . . with fingers. Having to make stuffed toys was bad enough but gloves almost turned me into a Loopy Academy drop out. Had it not been for Nicole enthusiastically jumping in and getting hers done, I would have quit but . . I am not a quitter and I knew I’d be sorry when she graduated and I didn’t.
Glove
First, this isn’t the greatest yarn choice for the pattern. I was originally going to knit a lacy glove and then changed my mind and switched to the cable. The hairiness of the alpaca content doesn’t work so well with the the cables.
Second, the pattern says to make the fingers 3 cm shorter than your finger. Most of my fingers are about 6 cm long so I would be making the glove fingers half as long as my finger. Then there are only two decrease rows so that doesn’t compensate for the 3 cm I’m chopping off my finger length. That doesn’t make sense. I knitted the fingers a bit longer but I still feel the fingers are a bit too short. I don’t want floppy fingers but I don’t want them tight either.
At this point, done is better than perfect.
Second Glove
The second glove is started. The Bad Judy tried to talk me into starting another project. I can make a glove in 3 days so I have plenty of time to get that second one done but I know me .. if I put this thing down, I’ll never come back to it and then I’ll fail this semester and have to start over and make those stuffed toys again. Ughh .. that’s not going to happen.
Lee Young says
Upon seeing that photo, my thoughts were those look like awfully short fingers! After you said you measured your fingers, I measured my own. Mine are just a wee bit longer, but not much. As far as I’m concerned, you can whine all you want. If it were me, I’d be whining…because I don’t knit at all. Maybe they’ll fit Addie’s fingers?
Sharon Downey says
Your allowed to whine. I admire you for trying it and committing yourself to finish. Even if you never make another pair. With that said I want to tell you a story of my great grandmother. They lived in Kansas and when my grandmother was born in 1900 they were still living in a sod house on the prairie. About 4 years later her husband died leaving her with 5 very young girls to raise alone. Things became hard for her very quickly and she did all sorts of things to keep her family together. One thing she did was to knit mittens and gloves to sell at the general store in town. She had all the normal chores done the hard way but every evening after her girls were in bed she would sit down and knit. She could do at least one mitten an evening and in that way she would have about 3 pair a week to sell along with her eggs and butter. Can you imagine setting that goal for your self that you would knit at least one mitten every evening after working all day? I enjoy your story’s.
Beachbelle says
Here’s a tip – the pattern actually says 3mm shorter than your finger, not 3cm.
That should help.
JudyL says
Thank you! I kept thinking I must be reading it incorrectly and read it a dozen times and never noticed that. Makes a HUGE difference!
Sandie says
What pattern did you use?