Amanda Knits

Note to self: 8 cable crosses on a cuff plus 4 cable crosses at the top of a glove does not equal 12 cable crosses on a cuff.

Finding this out after you've done half the gussets on the second glove...ahhhh...

One glove is done!

I'm knitting a pair of fingerless gloves to match the hat I made for Sister. I'm almost done with the first glove but...

Three rows ago I miscrossed two cables. Two cables in two different sections! (There are three sections of cables, and each section has two cables.) To further be difficult, these cables include a purl st in them.

If these were for ME, I’d leave the error. But they’re a gift, so I dropped and re-crossed. A minor pain, but it looks pretty good.

I adore my not-yet Sister-in-Law. She's gorgeous in this very unknowing, quirky sort of way. She's smart and she puts up with my poor Korean. She's awesome.

She's a graphic designer and her favorite color is brown. I dug into my stash and found some merino wool I bought in Japan in a brick-red-brown color.

In a week's time, I knit her this hat.

I used the wool double stranded on US 6s. I knit the cable pattern (Loose Five-Rib Braid on p 169 in Walker's Second Treasury), then picked up stitches along the edge and turned in into a beret. I used just under two balls of wool.

I'm making matching fingerless gloves to go with it since I'm sure her employer--if my Korean employers were anything like other Korean employers--keeps the office cold.

I have been working on a mistake rib cotton sweater.

It is sooooo slow going.