In my quest to become proficient enough with knitting to knit a sweater, I made a pair of wrist warmers/fingerless gloves for myself.
I used the pattern Friends and some handspun, hand-dyed BFL wool.
The ends still need weaving in, but I’m calling them done (it’ll only take a few minutes once I feel like sitting down and doing it, anyway). Skills acquired: purling the right way, M1 increases, picking up stitches, ssk and k2tog decreases, binding off in pattern, casting on to DPNs, sequestered stitches.
Mistakes were made. I have a tendency to twist my purl stitches, but I think I’ve broken that habit. And the first set of M1 increases got twisted, leaving a pair of weird, but stable, holes. Other than that, super happy with these cute (and easy!) wrist warmers.
I honestly don’t mind dealing with the ends so much with knitting, but despise doing it with crochet. Either way, I always leave it until it must be done or I feel like doing it. It’s also why I avoid all color work and adore multicolored yarns.
There is one problem with making anything cute…my DS2 decides he needs some, too. I have 2 oz. of Rambouillet handspun from a different breed study that I’ll use for his - it’s the softest wool I’ve ever spun.
This are pretty adorable! I love the colors and they look like they’ll be just the thing when the weather turns cold. I can’t even imagine even being in a room with anything warmers today!
Gorgeous! Sounds like you’ve learned all of the stitches you’d need for a top down sweater! My first knit sweater was Tin Can Knits Flax pattern. It was a great one to start with.
I actually have that one in my favorites on Ravelry. I love that strip of garter stitch down the sleeves. I’m going to give Jane Richmond’s Classic Raglan Pullover a shot. It has some easy neck shaping, but looks pretty straightforward for a first sweater.