After two weeks in nearly 100°F weather on the West coast of the United States, the cool, crisp air that greeted me as I stepped past the heavy wooden doors from my office courtyard into the street this evening came as a surprise. By 8pm, the sun had already set and the city was enveloped in darkness. These are telltale signs that Fall is upon us which seems morbidly out of place given that we never had a real summer.
Thankfully I finished Nathalie's endpaper mitts just in time for the cool weather to begin.
Pattern: Endpaper Mitts by Eunny Jang
Yarn: Rowan 4ply soft in Espresso and Wink
Amount used: less than one skein of each
Needles: 2.5mm double points. The pattern says to use smaller needles for the ribbing but I couldn't be bothered and I believe it turned out just fine.
Knitting these mitts was my first encounter with fair isle and two handed knitting. Intimidated at first, I quickly adapted to the rhythm of the pattern although my first attempts were exceedingly tight and I ripped several times. The Italian tubular cast on the and the kitchener rib bind off were also fun techniques to learn. Click on the links to see some bloggers who put together some excellent tutorials.
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