A handful of yarn

I finished the collar for Eris on Thursday night. I’m blocking it out right now, as I want to try and even out some cable wonkiness before I get to the body, and as the room I’m blocking it in has absolutely no natural light sources, a picture will have to wait until the collar is dry,

The momentary project monogamy was good while it lasted, but I have a new WIP in my life.

I bought some size 2 DPNs yesterday and cast on for this:

This is the cuff and most of the hand of a glove. I’ve only got a few rows left until I start on the fingers – my hands are pretty small, so it’s going rather quickly. I’ve decided that I do want fingers for my gloves after all, just no tips (as they would make typing a tad difficult…).

It’s a tad wonky at the side there, because that’s where I’m carrying up the strands of yarn – no, that’s not self-striping yarn – but blocking should even it out. And at least the striping prevents boredom.

No pattern for this. I’m using the Progressive Gloves article from IK Winter 2003 as a starting off point, but I’m including asymmetrical gussets, and I plan to start the pinky earlier than the other fingers. I might also start the ring finger a couple of rows before my middle and index fingers, but I haven’t completely decided on that yet.

It’s probably too optimistic to hope for completion by the end of the month, but I definitely want to be done within two weeks. If it’s not done by then, I just know I’ll lose interest and not finish for months.