Wednesday, November 04, 2009

Felted Tweed Gloves

I now have a lovely pair of winter gloves. Amazingly they only took 37g of Rowan Felted Tweed, less than one ball. And I got the yarn when the old John Lewis was closing in Liverpool for £1.25 a ball, meaning these gloves cost about a pound!! Bargain of the year or what?





Coincidentally Knitting Daily have been plugging the book The Knitter's Handy Book of Patterns this past week which this pattern is from. It's the first time I have used this book and it was really useful because I chose my yarn and gauge and then looked at the chart and found the number of stitches to cast on and away I went. As the meerkat would say - Simples!

Pattern: Basic Glove Pattern from the above book
Yarn: Rowan Felted Tweed
Needles: 3.25mm

2 comments:

yoel said...

That's so shocking how little yarn they took! Very sassy color too! Inspired and off to get some RFT...

dreamcatcher said...

I love the gloves! Very bargainous too. Will definitely have to get my copy of that book out!

BTW Dexter the TV series is well worth watching. I have the first book but not read it, the show is great and quite darkly comical.