First Real Attempt At Fair Isle
January 7, 2011
I cast on these bird mittens since they were the least intimidating fair isle project in my queue. After two false starts I finally got the hang of it! Happy to say it’s not as difficult as it looks. Fridica’s post about yarn dominance came in handy as did this one because I’m a thrower.
I was only provided with the color chart so looked for a basic mitten pattern on Ravelry and Google with no success. After a few ARGHHs I remembered I had one in my Knitter’s Book of Wool!
But before all that I made a new pink potholder. The green one was too ugly to use.
And there’s Smelly. She looks so innocent here but a few seconds before she was jumping and clawing at the cupboards for cookies.
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So much yarn! Do you have a bigger fair isle project that you’re planning?
By the way, your fair isle is insanely tidy for unblocked fair isle. My stranded knitting always looks really lumpy until I block it.
It’s all an illusion! There are only 14 balls. I don’t have a bigger project in the works, I just wanted an assortment to choose from for random spur of the moment projects. I don’t have any yarn stores near me so everything is ordered online and I hate the wait.
As for tidiness, if you look closely you’ll see a white thing sticking out of the cuff–it’s a gift card I shoved in there to stretch it out.
I would love to learn fair isle. It seems like it is super hard though so I am a bit scared.
It looks great well done, i love the pot holder very pretty.
That potholder is gooooorgeous! I’m glad I could help out with the colourwork!