Like you wouldn't if you could.
289 yards
This is the Fire Fox Farm cormo from darling Margene.
I spun slightly wonky thin singles. Plied from both ends of the cake. Then did it again. The yarn is soft, bouncey and exactly what I wanted. Better still, I know exactly what I'm going to do with it. I just don't know when I'll have time to do it. There are worse problems, right?
They are done and they are fabulous! I love the seed stitch thumbs and with those amazing cables. Squishy dyed the yarn. Blame her for the PINK!, which I actually happen to like. It goes well with all the gray and black I wear these days.
Getting ready to start a new pair of sleeve while I try to wrap my brain around the next hat pattern. Colorwork, people. Be afraid.
*Typing while he's crying in a phone booth. Remember phone booths?! o.O
I'm afraid...not really. It's just colorwork, not brain surgery.
The mitts are great and moving up the list of "to do".
Will wrestle you for the cormo. It's the best stuff and the yarn you made looks great. I hope you get to knitting it up soon. Yum.
Posted by: silvia | Saturday, January 18, 2014 at 12:31 PM
Have you seen Colin lately? He's a bit worse for the wear I'm afraid. Still, he beats anything I find anymore. Lovelovelove the mitts and the cormo is beautiful, hunny. Simply beautiful!
Posted by: CindyCindy | Saturday, January 18, 2014 at 12:40 PM
I especially love the fold-up cuffs at the fingers -- my next pair of fingerless gloves will have those. Also the cables. I love cables.
Posted by: kmkat | Saturday, January 18, 2014 at 12:50 PM
The yarn looks wonderful and the mitts' picture did turn out excellent! :D
Some of the ladies at knitting did a Knit Picks colorwork hat/cowl thingy. Very pretty...should I find it and torture you with more patterns?? ;)
I DO remember phone booths. Before cell phones did away with them!
xoxo
Posted by: Marilyn | Saturday, January 18, 2014 at 02:03 PM
Ooh - I never saw that movie. Good? Not that it matters with Colin, I suppose.
Sigh. I'd settle for spending the weekend with the cormo.
Such pretty mitts!
There were phone booths in Budapest. Brightly colored ones. Yellow and green on the outside, with a blue phone and pink handset.
Posted by: Cheryl S. | Saturday, January 18, 2014 at 02:15 PM
Damn does he look *young* or what in that movie?
Posted by: Anne | Saturday, January 18, 2014 at 04:07 PM
You made the cormo look even softer!
Pssshaw! You'll ace the color work, have no fear.
Who knew the phone booths we loved as children would disappear in our lifetimes? Change is a constant.
Posted by: margene | Sunday, January 19, 2014 at 07:34 AM
I love the cables with the seed stitch inside! I'm a total fool for seed stitch. (The looking-at-it; not so much the knitting-it.) As for Colin . . . . sigh.
Posted by: Kym | Sunday, January 19, 2014 at 06:39 PM
Ooh, color work hats. I always stranded too tightly. I got better, but that damn thing called gauge is always waiting to haunt me, I swear. The mitts turned out fabulous, but I'm drooling over the yarn. Makes me want to drag out some silk and cast on a shawl, when I have another perfectly good silk shawl waiting in the wings for- gasp- three years at least now? Yikes.
Posted by: Kelly | Monday, January 20, 2014 at 02:48 AM
Those mitts are gorgeous.
Posted by: gale | Monday, January 20, 2014 at 04:43 AM
Soft, bouncy, exactly what you wanted, and you know what you want to do with it? It doesn't get much better than that. I hope you find the time soon.
Your mitts are gorgeous!
Are the sleeves with the gray yarn? What is the colorwork hat pattern? xo
Posted by: Sarah | Monday, January 20, 2014 at 10:01 AM
Marvelous mitts! Pink is a lovely accent to gray and black.
Unfortunately, I am completely ignorate of the Colin. I hope the weekend was good. :D
Posted by: Angie | Wednesday, January 29, 2014 at 06:31 PM