knitters: HALP!
When I first started knitting socks, I found basic patterns and followed them carefully and so on, like you do. I'm comfortable enough now that I can fly on my own with sock knitting - which is good, because I seldom if ever use the yarn that the pattern recommends, you know, like you do, and I have wicked high insteps and I tend to like the legs of my socks one pattern repeat shorter than the designers do, etc., etc.
I now have some fabulous yarn that College Roommate K sent me for my birthday (that was what was in the FedEx the other day!), with which I hope to make a pair of fingerless gloves. In fact I hope to make fingerless gloves and a skinny scarf, but I can handle the scarf on my own. In fact I hope to make convertible fingerless gloves and a skinny scarf, but I've got [checks again] 375 yards of sock yarn and that may not be enough, so the convertible-ness may have to go by the wayside.
BUT ANYWAY. I've been searching and searching for a basic roll-your-own fingerless-gloves pattern, and I can't find one. I can find lots of patterns with lots of foofera, which, okay, I could ignore the foofera, but what all that does to gauge and so on I'm not quite confident of accounting for, if you see what I mean, so I'd prefer a plain one. And I can find lots of basic get-you-started patterns for fingerless mittens, but that's not what I want. To clarify: I want these things to have fingers, just not fingertips - and I certainly can't start with a wrist-warmer pattern and improvise the fingers, because it's the many-fingers aspect of the thing that I'm least sanguine about.
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neotoma? ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sneezer222? Anyone?
I now have some fabulous yarn that College Roommate K sent me for my birthday (that was what was in the FedEx the other day!), with which I hope to make a pair of fingerless gloves. In fact I hope to make fingerless gloves and a skinny scarf, but I can handle the scarf on my own. In fact I hope to make convertible fingerless gloves and a skinny scarf, but I've got [checks again] 375 yards of sock yarn and that may not be enough, so the convertible-ness may have to go by the wayside.
BUT ANYWAY. I've been searching and searching for a basic roll-your-own fingerless-gloves pattern, and I can't find one. I can find lots of patterns with lots of foofera, which, okay, I could ignore the foofera, but what all that does to gauge and so on I'm not quite confident of accounting for, if you see what I mean, so I'd prefer a plain one. And I can find lots of basic get-you-started patterns for fingerless mittens, but that's not what I want. To clarify: I want these things to have fingers, just not fingertips - and I certainly can't start with a wrist-warmer pattern and improvise the fingers, because it's the many-fingers aspect of the thing that I'm least sanguine about.
Who has basic instructions for me?
neotoma? sneezer222? Anyone?