Moving Sale!

In honor of my sister and I (hopefully!) moving out of our apartment in the lovely yet very foggy Richmond/Seacliff district come October 1st, I have decided to put my entire stock of Morning Fog Mitts on sale. Get ready for winter and save a few bucks in the meantime! (But feel free to send good thoughts our way as our apartment hunt continues...)

morning fog mitts // gray and navy

morning fog mitts // lettuce green and cream morning fog mitts // emerald blue and gray

When I'm Not Making Gloves...

Occasionally I manage to actually start and finish a project for myself entirely outside of the world of Etsy. It's rare, but I think it's something worth celebrating. I've come to the conclusion that I am a hat/gloves/cowl making girl at heart (thanks, in part, to my terrible habit of never finishing large projects), but here's a peek of some of the projects from 2009 that have actually completed their cast-on to cast-off life cycles.

Jasmine

pattern: Jasmine by Kim Hargreaves, from Nectar

yarn: 5 balls Rowan 4-Ply Cotton, color 121 (Ripple)

needles: sizes 2 and 3 circulars

notes/modifications: It's no secret that I love Kim Hargreaves designs, but I have very little patience for the pointless and tortuous seaming that all Rowan patterns demand. I decided to modify the pattern so I would have to do little to no seaming. Not did I get away with it, but I was also able to basically avoid do any purling. No wonder I actually finished this sweater. Instructions on how to work this sweater seamlessly are detailed on my Ravelry page.

Kate's Cate

pattern: Cate by Kim Hargreaves, from Thrown Together

yarn: 6 skeins of Malabrigo Merino, color Polar Morn

needles: sizes 6 and 8 circulars

notes/modifications: I let this sweater hibernate for many months before picking it up and finishing it. Despite my hatred for seaming, I actually knit this sweater in pieces as the pattern called for (with the exception of the sleeves). I even knit a good chunk of this toasty merino wool sweater in the sweltering heat of North Carolina. That coupled with seaming set-in sleeves on reverse stockinette...? It really is a miracle I'm able to call this project a finished object. And if you can believe it, sleepy Chihuahuas don't help matters much.

I Gots Me a Flicka

Although it was a long time coming, I expect I have still have a long way to go. I'm not entirely sure what people do on Flickr necessarily, but I'm excited to be a part of it all. For now, I'm using my new Flickr account to provide customers looking to build their own gloves a way to view color swatches, button choices, and samples.

Watching slideshows of all those cute little circles make me glad I spent many delirious hours creating them and them editing them to make their colors look as true to life as possible.

Prepare to get your mind blown. Click here to see my Flickr page!

Introducing... Alpaca

I posted two new items in the shop today which I'm excited to say fall under a brand new sub-category of gloves: alpaca!

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LUXURY line // alpaca gloves (red and plum) $32

My love of alpaca dates back to what I consider to be my first legitimate and break-through knitting project (following 2+ years of dicking around making up scarves and ridiculous hats). It was a gigantic triangle shawl from Greetings from Knit Cafe, made from Blue Sky Sport Baby Alpaca. Although it was incredibly tedious and took months to finish, I love, love, loved it and I still do. It was the first project that required me to turn my back on Michael's and shop at a real big girl knit shop. I was instantly hooked on alpaca's incredible softness, warmth, and drape. Working with such a luxurious fabric made for an entirely different knitting experience. There was no going back!

Anxious to do something with some alpaca I had stashed, I worked up a variation on my traditional fingerless mitts one evening while watching some undoubtedly terrible TV. After several tries, I came up with a picot edging in scraps of merino wool that I was happy with. There they were, my brand new sub-category.

Welcome to K.M. Knits, little glovelettes.