My Almeara Gloves: FOs

They are finished - finally - and surprisingly warm. Must be the garter stitch on the palms and all that cabling on the tops. :-)

The cables don't show up very well on this photo [the best of several I took.] And I think this colorway is not the best for showing cables anyway. But, they match the scarf my Dear Friend from England sent me last year [or the year before? Sorry, J, I'm notoriously bad with details.] And that was my goal - to have gloves that went with the scarf - and at the same time make those gorgeous Jared Flood Almearas. See my previous post. And Jared's.

August Updates 3

Warm Hands (for me!)

1. Knucks
Pattern: Knucks by Pamela Grossman from Knitty, Summer 2006
Yarn: Bernat Cashmere Natural Blends in Coal for the hands & I Love This Wool in Winter White for the ribbed wrists and fingers
Needles: 4 [US]
Knit for: Me :-)

2. Jared Flood's Almeara Gloves - I think the "natural" color would probably show the pattern better, but I'm knitting them in Knit Picks new City Tweed DK in the Habanero colorway. I'm nearly finished with the hand of the first glove.

I'm using dpns and started out with metal ones - but size 8 metal dpns are just TOO heavy and too slidey. So, I set this project aside and ordered bamboos dpns from Knit Picks. Wow! what a difference! I recently got a digital "kitchen" scale (but have only weighed yarn -- why didn't I have one of these before now?) One of the metal size 8 dpns weighs 8 gms, but one of the bamboo size 8s only weighs 3 gms. And not so slidey either. Photos will follow eventually. And so will a blog about the project I'll do with the yarn I ordered at the same time as the size 8 bamboos. :-)