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Love Knitting: Dashing Gloves

Love Knitting: Dashing Gloves.

Aren't these gloves cool. Just spotted them on" Love Knitting" blog. These may have to go into my Q. I've never been to this blog before but I will be back. Fun stuff.

Amazing Mittens

Well the new year has gotten off to a slow start for my knitting. Work is crazy busy and add in 10 to 12 hours in the car commuting too.....well, you get the point. Not enough time or energy left. So what am I doing today. I'm going to try and work on some of my unfinished projects which I have many. But in the mean time I stumbled across some wonderful pages with Latvian mittens. Take a look .  And here too . A nice diversion when I'm suppose to be finishing projects. Sometimes I just need to get inspired. More to come on gloves and mittens later. Just wanted to let you know that I was still here.

Looking for glove inspiration........

I stumbled upon a group of knitters that are doing gloves that are really diverse and inspiring. It's a knit-a-long but you choose what you want to do etc. That is a knit-a-long that I could possibly do. I've never signed up for knit-a-long because they always seem too structured for me. With work and life and everything...all the deadlines at work I just didn't want to add more deadlines to my life. But I like to see what people are doing in groups so I lurk around alot but never sign up.  Another GLOVE KAL if your interested. This group is knitting a beautiful pair of fair isle gloves designed by Karen she has a pdf download available. These gloves are lovely, tons of color, pattern and a real treat.....eye candy. So have I cast on yet? No....I'm still in that wonderful beginning stage of gathering ideas and inspiration. This is my favorite part of designing. The what if stage. So I'm going through my library and I ran across a little gem of a book that I got last year. I think it is out of print but if you can find a copy it's well worth adding to your library. Gloves of Lithuania Minor it's written in English and what I believe is Lithuanian. The first part of the book is Lithuanian Gloves in Lithuania Minor and the second part is Fancy Works of Klaipeda Area Women. There are no patterns with instructions but it is full of charts and history and examples of gloves and mittens from the region.

                                                                           

If you notice on the cover that there is the number 3. It looks like this was a third book in a series but I have not  found any other information to confirm that theory. I'm still looking for the other 2. If you have any great books on gloves and mittens drop me a line and let me know about your favorites. I'm always looking for those little gems hiding out there.

 

So you want to knit gloves.....

Me too. I want to knit gloves too. I've been so busy with socks and other endeavors but I have been thinking about gloves for some time. One of the best resources that I have found is....Nona she is doing some very cool gloves not to mention socks and sweaters. You name it she knits it. A very inspirational place to visit. I love her tutorials and she has a great one on glove fingers on two cirs. Check it out. For me right now I'm looking at and dreaming about designing fair isle gloves. It's snowing here today so on a snowy Sunday afternoon I'm reading, knitting and thinking about the huge tree in my backyard that fell on my house yesterday and how we are going to get it out of here. The house is fine only small damage but my purse is going to be hurting big time. Maybe if I keep knitting it will go away.