{"id":1010,"date":"2011-01-02T09:33:02","date_gmt":"2011-01-02T14:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jorahlavin.wordpress.com\/?p=179"},"modified":"2011-01-02T09:33:02","modified_gmt":"2011-01-02T14:33:02","slug":"wip-dashing-fingerless-gloves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=1010","title":{"rendered":"WIP: “Dashing” fingerless gloves"},"content":{"rendered":"

I took a couple of snaps of my current ‘train project’ (knitting I mainly work on while commuting). This is a pattern called Dashing<\/a> by Cheryl Niamath. We have friends in New England who have helped us out of jambs many times over the last 20 years, and these are going to them as a small note of thanks. I’ve got another pair (for them) that is currently hibernating for the winter, but these are moving along pretty well. I modified the pattern to add a thumb gusset.<\/p>\n

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You’ll see that I’m doing these “2 up” or 2-at-a-time on a long circular needle. This is a technique that helps ensure a few things:<\/p>\n

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  1. Your pair of mittens (or socks, sweater sleeves, whatever) will be the same length. See my earlier post<\/a> about messing up row counts for an idea of why this is important.<\/li>\n
  2. You’ll finish the pair at the same time. Do a search on Second Sock Syndrome<\/a> to see just how common it is among knitters to finish one of some pair, and to\u00a0then experience a vast reluctance to begin the mate. Suffice to say, being done<\/em> beats being half-done<\/em> any day.<\/li>\n
  3. If you run low on yarn, you might be able to stop early… (uniformly early!) rather than having one complete mitten and one mitten that’s ? done.<\/li>\n
  4. If your tension changes over the course of several years<\/del> months<\/del> weeks<\/del> days the changes will\u2014again\u2014be uniform across the project as opposed to one mitten or sock being tightly knit and one a sloppy mess.*<\/li>\n
  5. You’re really unlikely to lose one mitten before the second one’s complete.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    There are drawbacks… I spend a fair amount of time de-tangling the two strands of yarn and organizing the cord of the circular needle. I also feel as if I get more strange looks from fellow travelers on the train. Since many muggles can’t tell crochet from knitting, the sight of someone managing two strings, two needle points, and two mittens at the same time probably makes their heads explode<\/del> stops them from even trying to guess what I’m doing.<\/p>\n

    This is the first project I’ve done with my Kollage square needles<\/a>\"\". The sales pitch talks about the more-uniform stitch results I can expect (uniform stitches aren’t a problem for me, so I can’t evaluate this claim) and they also mention that your gauge might be a bit off; they say that some users have to go up a needle size to get gauge. I wonder if this is why the mitts are a bit on the snug side?<\/p>\n

    The main quality I wanted to check out was the “no kink, no curl” low-memory cables. My beloved Addi Lace circular<\/a>\"\" needles do tend toward the kinky<\/em> side of the spectrum. Ahem. Not that there’s anything<\/em> wrong with that.<\/em><\/p>\n

    The cable on these Kollage needles is very, very flexible. I kind of like it, except for one thing… when I would normally be pushing the needle down into the next segment to continue my knitting, there is nothing to push against! The Addi needles slide back in the stitches as expected. The super-flexible Kollage cable just folds over and stops. This means that I have to push a bit, pull a bit, push a bit more. Fiddly. At a recent knit night at my LYS<\/a>, Susan said “it’s like pushing string.” Exactly. I’ll avoid any jokes about LYS owners being “string pushers.” Honestly. I will.<\/p>\n

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    Overall, I give the needles an A rating. I’d certainly consider buying more. Friends tell me that the Kollage DPNs are particularly wonderful for glove knitting.<\/p>\n

    The yarn here is something called “Yarn for Sox<\/a>,” which is very stiff and a bit scratchy. I read several commentaries on Rav that assured me that a few washings will soften this wool up very acceptably. I’m hoping to be done with this project sometime in the first week in January.<\/p>\n

    *note to self: write a post about the importance of uniformity in knitting… obviously you have thoughts about this issue!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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