With other diamond projects on my mind, these are having diamonds in moss stitch. the thumb also has a 7 st diamond motif on it.
So as not to interrupt the pattern, 62 sts used. Side slits for first ones, the handwarmers, and finished off with rib top. Full glove length is 20 rows for inner hem as stitches are elongated, 2 to change colour and turn. 24 rows of pattern then hem picked up. No thumb gusset to preserve pattern, another 20 to thumbline, 20 to top, 2 rows palin colour and divide for fingers.
And that completes my year of intermittent blogging!
I've never been interested in knitalongs before, mostly because of the time constraints and the competitive elements. But, having got all the advent stuff out of the way, I found myself in knitting limbo. Someone was starting a mystery mitten, one "clue" to be unveiled every three days. She's a designer whose other items I rather like, but this one is turning out most peculiar. Too many different techniques in one item. Half of stitches are knitted with two strands held together. With J& S 2ply jumper weight, and size 3mm needles, this makes for tough knitting here, and sloppy stranded colourway on the other half. There is a maxim in stage management "never book an act you haven't seen" ( that brings back some awful memories!), so I don't think I will be doing any more knitalongs if I can't see a photo of the finished object by gathering the clues together. Which probably defeats the whole object!
