Knitting - The Answer

Well, the answer to last Wednesdays question about fingerless mittens anyway. I think when it came to it, by asking the question I realised I knew the answer - do you ever do that? You ask something and realise that only one answer is acceptable, but until you ask you just can't decide? I was really hoping you'd all say to undo them, that they were better without, and so that's what I've done. They are fingerless mitts once more.

Instead I've started making a whole new pair and I'm going to plan for these to have caps from the word go. I've been wanting to have a go at some stranded colour work for a while now. I have quite a few patterns lined up that need it, and so decided that patterned mitts, made for me, would be a good testing ground. If they're not quite perfect then I'll still get lots of use out of them. This has one added bonus of using up much more of my stash yarn that just modifying the old pair, and should keep me busy for a little bit longer.

I've started making these. Pretty, right? The pattern is designed for seven colours, but they're split into two groups so that you can just use two if you want. Since I don't have seven coordinating colours in my stash I'm going with the two colour option, though for one of them I'm using Sirdar Crofter which is a self patterning yarn.

 Theres only one snag. Occasionally the crofter wool has a white section which means any pattern completely disappears against my ball of cream wool. I'm getting round this by simply cutting out these sections, and leaving little piles of them wherever I've been knitting....