How I fixed my worn out thumb here!

This beautiful scene reminds me of a passage in War and Peace. Young Count Nicolas is driving his horses and sleigh through the gorgeous wintery night (fast, of course, he’s young) and he realizes he loves Sonya and will marry her, but only because she is dressed like a boy (for a holiday tradition) and for once shows the confidence of a boy. He keeps saying how she looks so lovely with her ‘little moustache’… Strange, no?

19Jan2011: Well, I learned something about my dominant/submissive side… in fair-isle. The top of the mitten has long floats of red, the color in my non-dominant left hand. The way I was locking my dominant white yarn stitches was surprisingly loose (D. is now thinking back to her other fair-isle projects, hmm). Thus, the front of the mitten was noticeably bigger than the no-float palm side. Actually, it bulges out like a mutant-mitten bubble.

When I knitted the sky of the second mitten I took care to lock the dominant yarn more often (every 3 stitches instead of every 4) and I held the dominant yarn super-tight. It made quite a difference.

Good news: I improved my technique and can make better floats.

Bad news: I have to re-do the sky of the first mitten.

01Jan2011: Single ply was too thin, double is too thick. Tried US 1 needles, mitten doesn’t fit. I hope the US 2 will work because I really want to have these mittens and I really don’t want to go and buy yarn for them.