Welcome a new member

Linda wants to join the KAL

pop in & introduce yourself

when you get a chance

let us know what yarn / color you are gonna knit

welll....

wow, i can't beleive someone took Sherry's gloves

hope you get them back

i still haven't started the gloves

got yarn

got needles last weekend

got 0, 1, 2 & 2 1.2 circs

everytime i think i will start

i find something else i wanna start

just finished another pair of sox

current OTN

a bag .. yeah

i know i don't NEED another bag

but it's addictive

gonna look at the tam pattern to see IF i can

figure it out to translate Karen's graphs to the tam

OTOH

i mite just wing it &

Lets get a Knitting Posse Together

That just plain sucks that someone stole your gloves, I hope they are just misplaced although they are beautiful and I could see someone wanting them. They did not place, how wrong is that, well some people have no eye for talent. I am so sorry. Let's get a posse together and see if we can find your gloves.

So Cheryl did you get the Yarn Harlot to join our kal? She is going to be in Wichita (3hours away, used to live there) in September so I hope to go see her. I will take my gloves as well and maybe we can get her to join our group.

Abby

Even knitting gloves of wool, being a small project, is difficult in heat index of 110.

The County Fair!

You may be wondering why there is a pair of socks pictured here! Well, let me explain. These are my entries in the County Fair which ended last Sunday.

The socks are the "Eleanore" pattern with a picot edge top. The gloves you recognize as the gloves I knit for this KAL. The socks received First Place in the "slippers" category (since there was no sock category).

Don't misunderstand, I'm very pleased with the socks but I didn't have very high expectations for them. On the other hand, I did expect to get something for the gloves. The down side is that they had to go into an "other" category which is never good (you can't even guess what your competition is). The gloves got nothing--zip! I was surprised at that!

Rubbing salt in the wounds, they lost the gloves!!! They were no where to be found in a rather small (as fairs go) building. I'm hoping that they got folded into someones quilt or something and whoever it is will be honest and return them to the fair. I am very unhappy.

Gloves and Yarn Harlot

I went to hear the Yarn Harlot last Thursday and brought my glove as my project, many many oooohs and ahhhs..I finished the 4th finger on the first glove which then of course reminded me how much I love doing the glove so the fifth finger is done as well. Hoping to cast on for the second glove this weekend. I have yarn already for the second pair. I will post pics perhaps next Monday as I am working many mnay hours over the next 6 days (79)

New KAL

Hilla wants to know if we are going to have a sock snowflake kal? Anyone interested? And Sherry how did your gloves do in the county fair?

Anyone working on their second pair yet. Tracy, where did you go and did you get your other glove done?

I better get to work, leaving at noon today cos I have to use some comp time or lose it, I am going home to work on my sockstars socks cos we have a group knit on Monday and I had to completely start over. They are mitered squares done on size 0, I know I have lost my mind but I am to the point like probably some of you where I now need challenges in my knitting, besides it keeps the alzheimers at bay.

Tax Free weekend in Kansas City, how come yarn does not count as a school supply?

Abby

WELCOME

hey
Cindi from KC just joined

Accessories for our Gloves

In case you need something else to go with the fabulous gloves we are all making, in the Interweave Felt Issue that just hit the stands there is an ad from Tahki Stacey Charles with a snowflake purse and the Fall issue of Interweave Knits has a pattern for snowflake socks. So we now have an excuse to not only buy more magazines and yarn but to accessorize these gloves. DOn't forget to post your pictures and any issues, joys, etc to share for the class to be taught at The Studio in September. BTW they had a huge gumball sale one day, the color of the gumball got you a certain percentage off (I got 40%) and the lady in front of me had our glove patten with a vibrant red and black, I cant wait to see them, i told her about the blog so hopefully she will join and post pictures.

I am suppsed to go to LA in a couple of weeks and I finally found a black and salmon color to make my gloves out of, so that will be one project I am taking with me.

Finished gloves

Correction

Sorry,my last entry got cut off due to my"computer skills"
It should have ended that I learned a lot from my mistakes.
The thumb has way to many stitches for me and the suggested decrease makes it look of center.Are there any suggestions out there how to rectify this problem?Unfortunately, I cannot change to much on my second glove but I will have to knit another pair for my dd.

Change Spacing Of Twist If You Knit Tight

I discovered I knit tight enough with two colors I can not use the same knit two, twist each time as when I was working on the star on the back of the hand. I had little waves on the back. I need to change back and forth between at least two spacings when I get that far the second time.

Living in Iowa a long cuff can be a good thing a very good thing. As you want gloves up your sleeve overlapping so you do not feel the winds when they are strong at times freezing a gap. ;-) I am only going to shorten it a little bit.

First Glove finished

This afternoon I finally finished glove no1.Hopefully I will have enough contrasting yarn to finish the second one.I did not
feel like ribbing again,otherwise I would have shortened the cuff some more.It is way to long as AngW mentioned or my arms are to short.I will post a picture as soon as I find someone with a digital camera.I enjoyed the knitting and also

Plugging Along Again

I found that doing two color work in two hands tights up my gage a lot! So I have went up to a size 3 U.S. Addi hoping my gage will finally be the 8 stitches to the inch we need for the pattern. I started with a U.S. 1 I found I was getting 11 sts to the inch. I think I may shorten the area in the cuff between the snow flakes, not sure yet though.

I just finished the ribbing on the cuff for the second time.

C'est fini!

Gloves done! Love 'em! They are off to the county fair tomorrow! This was a challenge--but a R-E-A-L-L-Y fun one! I hope all of you are having as much fun with this as I have.

Yarn: Colinette Jitterbug in toscana colorway; Universal Pace in cream colorway. I used 1 skein each (but not whole skeins). There were knit on two circs (KnitPicks Options, size 2) up to the fingers and then, I bit the bullet and sprung for a set of Lantern Moon Sox Stix to do the fingers--LIFESAVERS!!! All of the fingers are different and the thumbs match.

This was my first pair of gloves. Thanks for a great KAL!

Karen Inspired Me

I just got off the phone with Karen and she said yes she is teaching the glove as a class, so we need to get our gloves and any problems, hints, etc on the blog so she can show the class and they can learn from our experiences and be inspired by the beautiful work you all have done. She also told me I need to post my one glove I have done. I am envious of people like karen who can come up with beauties such as the gloves, so I thought I can do that, yea right. I sat down one day and made charts, etc and thought I needed a pair of Halloween gloves which is my FAV day of the year. So here is myright hand, it has not been blocked and the left hand has a spider on the back of the hand with some other wording. Ladies let your imagination runwild and create, create, create

Abby

Hello All

I have been lax in glove knitting and posting. I have been finishing a lot of angel knitting and swaps, etc. Hope to return to my gloves in August......then I can wear them shortly after :) Everyone's gloves are so beautiful, great job ladies

update

i safely got to Georgia
today, i got a Driver's License & PO Box
i have the yarn & pattern
not sure i remembered to pack needles
most of my stuff is still in Indy
i am sore from packing, lifting & moving
i think i will be able to knit again tomoro
last nite, i knit strips of fuzzy yarn & attached them to
the straps of flip-flops
give it a week or so for me to adjust to things
in the south, then i mite get the opportunity
to start the gloves
goin' to Alabama tomoro to a yarn store
i heard of in Birmingham
will try to check in more regularly
so, what's on YOUR needles

I am addicted

Dear GW: I figure I can call you that since you are the President and I work for the FAA, technically you are my boss through a bunch of other bosses. Anyway I write to you today to tell you that instead of some of the stupid laws you are working on you need to consider making knitting a legal addiction. As I was driving to work today the DJ's were interviewing a dishwasher from Sweden. His government has dictated he is legally addicted to heavy metal music. They pay him 20% of his salary (omg the yarn I could buy with that much money each month), he gets his birthday and Ozzie's birthday off (I would settle for my birthday and Karen's birthday off), he gets to listen to his music at work as loud as he wants. I will settle for 15 minutes/hour to knit. They asked him what happens if he does not get to listen to his music, he said he gets aggressive. Well I am telling you right now if I dont get to knit at work I may stab one of these engineers with my metals, don't want blood on my bamboos. I promise to work real hard the other 45 minutes of each hour.

Your Employee

WELCOME

Joanne happened across the blog and wants

to join the fun

so welcome

Joanne

pop in tell us about yourself

sorry to be abscent

as of July 1, i will be based in Atlanta Ga

trying to throw away & pack stuff up

so i can move

taking the yarn & pattern with me

and needles

maybe by the time i get the gloves done

Nancy who is busier than i am

you wouldn't know it by HER blog

will have a hat pattern to knit

yeah, i WILL need gloves & hat & scarf

back to preparation to move

so ...

where is everyone's pic of their gloves

It is a class now

If I am reading my newsletter from The Studio right, the gloves are now a class you can take. So those of you have not posted your gloves please do so as we need to get them in the Hall of Fame. They will also be telling the class members about our kal. Also if you experienced any problems, worked out some issues, etc. please post them so the class can have the benefit of our testing the pattern so to speak. The class starts 9/16, so we still have three months to knit, frog, knit, frog, etc.etc.etc. Everyone's gloves are beautiful and I need to finish an exchange and start back on a pair for myself. Don't forget if you are having problems please post them so we can try and figure out what is going on.

Knit on.

Abby