As promised, here is what I knit with my gradient yarn.
Last week I finally was able to gift these mittens and can share them with you. They are the Anemoi Mittens by Eunny Jang, and the directions are just great! Along with help casting-on-tubularly via TechKnitting I was all set for my first color-work knitting adventure.
It’s really true what they say about wanting to see what happens in the next row… and these knit up super-fast. I loved the inside even more than the outside with all the beautiful floats, but none of the pictures of them turned out very well. I’m even considering making an inside-out fair isle sweater some day… the colors just blend so much more beautifully as floats. Would that be totally crazy?
I wish the color transitions had been a little smoother as it might have allowed the yarns to contrast more. I think using varigated yarns would work as long as the colors are very contrasting, but here there were some similar sections which caused blurring. But as you can see I’m so happy with the result that this post is an image-bombardment.
2012.06.07 02:01:14
Beautiful! I love these. Can you tell me how they are wearing? I have purchased some Abuelita Baby Merino Lace and I am wondering if – being a single ply yarn – they will pill a lot? I’m planning to knit fingerless gloves.
2012.06.09 10:32:12
Thank you! I gifted them to my mother, who I must admit is very careful with them. I have noticed that the brown natural yarn is not nearly as pill-y as some of the light grey that I used to make my eero which was a little fuzzy even after the knitting. That said, in colorwork they seem tighter and less pill-prone. Despite the pills, I love the look of single-ply yarn.