Spent some time yesterday updating things in Ravelry - I had finished a pair of pink merino wool fingerless gloves. Picture on left. Very scrumptious and so beautiful.
And I am still working on a pair of fiddlehead mittens. My local yarn shop had a class on this and everyone was making a big deal about them. So I found the pattern and some Alpaca Ultra Light and started in. Despite measuring my hand and doing a gauge swatch, the mittens just fit with only the one layer. They are supposed to have a second layer inside made of kid mohair, but there is not room inside if I still want them to fit me. So I am going to be happy with just the outside two colored layer. I have one and a half mittens done. The only annoying part is that the needles are size one - so it is rather slow going. But it's okay.
As for the Master Knitter swatches, I have knitted swatch 6 about four times now. The raised increases are not slanting in the directions I think they should. I always knew that there were several ways to increase but this is too much. I went to the public library in a nearby town and I found some nice books. Some have excellent pictures and some don't. And some give information that are conflict with everything else I know to be true. There was one book that was really great - the Principles of Knitting by June Hiatt, published in 1989. As soon as I got home I looked on half.com and found that I could buy a used copy for $134. The original price was under $30. Apparently many people feel as I do, that this is an excellent book.
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