19-12-2024

I definitely had only just enough of the gossamer yarn to complete the second glove - six repeats as versus the seven I had somehow counted upon! I made crochet cuffs as directed using the blue on its own for a very dainty finish.

I might try this pattern again at some point using a more suitable yarn, as what with the colour contrast between beads and wool and the general fuzz the leaf pattern isn’t really terribly visible.

18-12-2024

Had a panic of complete and utter disbelief when I got to the final rows of the right-hand glove and pulled on the other glove to check… and discovered that I somehow appeared to have made two right-hand gloves!
It dawned on me about an hour later that with the new short cuffs the top and bottom of each glove are basically identical, and I had been putting the left-hand glove on upside-down. So I don’t need to re-knit absolutely everything, only the final half-pattern repeat that I had just ripped back in an attempt to rescue a dropped loop.
I wonder if this phenomenon can possibly explain some of my other bewildered and furious restarts?

17-12-2024

The fluffy yarn was getting so stripped that I rewound the entire ball so that I could cast on from the other, relatively untouched, end. After six rows or so I noticed that while I was indeed working from the page for the right-hand glove, I had started by knitting chart 2 instead of by knitting chart 1….

I started again for the fourth(!) time, and successfully knitted one and a half repeats in about four hours.

16-12-2024

Completely failed to pick up the first repeat of the right-hand glove on multiple rows, and ended up restarting the entire glove twice, somehow managing to get the beading on the wrong side on both occasions to produce a second left-hand glove, and thus wasting about six hours and stripping most of the body out of the wretched yarn for no result whatsoever. :-(

15-12-2024

Finished knitting the second glove directly off the first glove (after having a lot of difficulty undoing my cast-off). It unravelled quite nicely, to my relief, and the join happens to fall at the end of a row in the section worked in the flat, which is handy.

Now I just need to finish unravelling what is left of the second repeat on the first glove, and then reknitting it all up again with that section now in the flat….

It is a nice lace pattern that is reasonably easy to read and relatively quick to knit once you are in the swing of things - it took me two complete repeats of “La Boheme” on vinyl to finish the second glove in one day - but as soon as you put the work down it is very easy for things to start going wrong, resulting in whole sections having to be undone!

14-12-2024

It turns out I have enough yarn for just seven repeats, so will have to start again and do the glovelets with no cuffs (and, having already cast off the long version, will have to rejoin the yarn in the middle of at least one of them).

12-12-2024

Cast off first glove loosely using 3.5mm needle and started second glove. Unfortunately it doesn’t look as if there can possibly be enough of the blue/green yarn left to complete another five full repeats; I shall have to waste time working as far as I can go in order to see how many repeats I can squeeze out of it, then unravel almost everything on both gloves in order to redistribute the available yarn down in the cuff section.

If needs be I can simply work the default ‘glovelets’ as given with only three repeats per glove and no cuff, as I definitely do have enough yarn for six repeats… possibly minus edging! This would at least have the merit of being faster to reknit.

10-12-2024

Using 3.25mm needles, largely because that is about the only set of dpns that I have free at the moment - the glove looks tiny, but it does seem to fit over my hand…