Last night I started knitting the Slither gloves, from Knitty.
Today I will mostly be unravelling them, and starting again. Wah!
(I made a mistake right at the beginning of the stripes, dammit.)
The pattern is marked as “tangy”, which is not really very complicated in the great scheme of things. The particular difficulty with this pattern is that you’re doing three things at the same time.
Decrease every sixth row; repeat twelve times.
Change colour every eighth row; repeat ten times.
Make a buttonhole on the third row of every colour change.
Given my current inability to remember what day it is, I can’t keep all of that lot in my brain and knit at the same time. So, I have made myself a handy chart, writing out the rows in blocks of two stripes at a time. I’ve simply numbered the rows, 1-16 in five columns, and I’ve written “dec” or “butt” on the appropriate row, to remind me that I have to do something other than just keep knitting.
Now I just need to keep track of which row I’m working on, and everything will be fine!
The pattern and the image above are © Veronica O’Neil. She also has some handy hints and comments about the pattern on her blog!