Just finished and added to etsy:

One of a kind twined gloves made from a blend of my handspun yarn sourced from Inspiration Fibers with little highlights of bright blue firestar amid cream and brown wool combination, and Bendigo black yarn.

These gloves are double stranded which means they have no stretch and are sadly just a bit too small for me :(

Feel free to use chart for your own tubey but would appreciate a linky - and make sure you note the troubles I had -> I solved the puffyness issue by hand-stitching in some lines of back stitch to pull ribbing together in that section and now seems ok. If I did it again I might decrease just under the bust to account for this before starting the stranded section.

My new pattern at last! Much work to get this one published, many thanks to all the lovely testers

Complex technique experimentation
Lee Meredith's (leethal) Sideways Edge Cast-On


Techniques I've never tried before
Crochet Jacquard from Danielle Kassner


Kool-aid dyeing tutorials
(I haven't seen kool-aid in Australia so maybe I'm just jealous :p)

 Lee Meredith
snowangels
Knit One, Blog Two
craftstylish

Much of my time in the last couple of weeks has been taken up working samples for a new pattern. Completed the first draft yesterday, but there is still much work to be done before it is ready. I will learn from previous experience and get it properly testing this time.

The design includes a small colour stranded chart, basket weave and horizontal stitch. I think I might substitute the dark brown for something lighter. What do you think?

Well this week I completed my fair isle fingerless gloves with the tree of Gondor on the back of the hands.



They didn't turn out quite as nicely as I'd hoped, but they are still nice to wear. I've decided that even though working on 4 needles created a much nicer fit, it is much quicker and less stressful to just knit the gloves on 2 needles and put up with my slightly wonky seams, I'm sure I will get better as I go along.



Hope everyone had a fun Halloween :)
I'm off to work on some more patterns

I had a nice weekend away, although didn't get through most of the things I had hoped to find time to do. Daylesford was much as I remembered, although the second-hand book shop now has a coffee shop inside it (think Black Books :p) and there was a particularly tasty bakery in the main street.

The B&B (which was missing the second B) was ok. It was also a little odd in that the owners could rarely be found (when we arrived, and even when we were going to pay them for our stay)

On our trip I made a start on some new fingerless gloves, this time inventing a fair isle pattern of a tree to go on the back of the hand.



Recording the pattern on a chart is hurting my brain, and I just realised I have written some of it wrongly, but I hope to at least finish one glove this week.



Oh, and we also visited the Chocolate Mill near Daylesford where we got these cute chocolates - om nom nom!