Knitting by Zen

Dashing! I participated in a "Choose 3 for a 1 skein swap" swap with a knitting group that I’m part of, and my partner said that she liked pinks and purples, and wanted either a bag, fingerless gloves or socks. I had been meaning to try Dashing so I got some lovely wool out of my stash that Morgan dyed:

The one at the back there, all purple and pink, and turned it into:

The first three photos are of the first pair I knit for my pal Kate. The last photo on black is the pair I knit for me. I loved them so much I knit the darn pattern *4* times!

The first pair are near identical copies of each other, which is very cool! The second pair are pretty and lovely and all mine and highly coveted by lots of people. I have made plans *mwahahaha* to make some as gifts for friends as well. And my housemate has asked me to make some on commission for him!

I worked out after the first one that the cast off is not for me because it curls up! The way I fixed the curling over of the top of the glove was the funk-ify my cast off. I simply turned my knitting around, and cast off the opposite way to what I’d been knitting, but I knit where the stitch looked like a purl, and I purled where the stitch looked like a knit. So, with the pattern as k4 p1 on the right side, I turned and slipped the first stitch (looking like a knit), then knit and cast off 4 (looking like a purl) as I went, then p1 (that looked like a knit) and cast off, then k and cast off the next 4 (which looked like purls), then discarded the needle and continued around the top of the glove. When I got back to the starting point, my cast off was now 2 rows above the start of the row, so I picked up, k and the co a stitch from below, then picked up and knit and cast off another one, then picked up one randomly below all the knitting and knit and then cast off, then broke off the yarn and pulled the yarn through the last loop.

I guess what that does is turn the cast off into a garter stitch one rather than a stockinette one. Woo.