It was nice to hear that there are readers out there!! Thank you for commenting!
Okay. We know knitters are obsessive. It comes with the territory. You can’t keep going on an adult sweater in fingering weight yarn without having some form of mental quirk! I really love my Ris Tunic, and when I finished I thought it would be super cute to make matching mitts. I rummaged through my stash of Jamieson jumperweight yarn and found many of the colours (you have to spell colors “colours” when speaking of British yarn!!).
See?? Thery really are super cute!!! I call them Ris-tlets!! ::groan:: The style is a handwarmer, like my Fjord Mitts.
In addition to Spindrift, I used Einband (Istex laceweight yarn) for the facings. However, my jumperweight wool is a darker gray, so I also made fake Einband out of medium gray Léttlopi. I split the yarn into its two separate strands and then twisted the heck out of it! After the foldline I switched to the lighter Einband color. I also used Léttlopi in a few places on the mitts, where I just couldn’t match the colors — the lime green and bright purple. I split the strand and knit it like Plötulopi. It was quite thin, but it worked!
I wanted to use 60 sts so I could use the 12-stitch pattern repeat. That number of sts would make the mitts too large. To get both size and hourglass shaping, I used various needle sizes from 2.75 mm to 3.5 mm. They ended up too tight! I [over-] blocked the first one and it was too big. Goldilocks finally reblocked the first and blocked the second to the perfect size. I really love them!!
Obsessive, but GORGEOUS and worth all the effort!
Comment by Sherry B. — March 22, 2023 @ 11:12 am
I’ve never commented before but wanted to say how much I love your Ris-tlets and admire your resourcefulness with the yarn.
Comment by Ann P — March 22, 2023 @ 8:29 pm
That is determination! They turned out lovely, and I would never have guessed it wasn’t all the same yarns.
Comment by Amy — March 23, 2023 @ 2:04 pm
They are beautiful. Thanks for telling us how you made your stash yarn work.
Comment by Robin — March 24, 2023 @ 5:47 am
This set is absolutely amazing! So much work and thought obviously went into it, too! WOW! You hit it out of the ballpark on this one!
Comment by Kathy W. — March 28, 2023 @ 11:36 am