What am I so afraid of?
I’m afraid of left turns. I’m afraid the oral surgeon appointment tomorrow will leave me with as few answers afterwards as I had before it. I’m afraid to knit lace while whacked out on pain medication. I’m afraid to knit my fingerless glove design I’ve mapped out, even with the crappy non-Dave sportweight yarn. I’m afraid I’ll never feel better. I’m afraid I’ll oversleep tomorrow morning.
There’s not much I can do about my face tonight, except take narcotics even if I’m very tired of being mentally mushy. The left turn problem is understandable and well, unavoidable. Except tonight in bed, which is a turnfree zone. I’ve set Benkei the Sidekick with two different times for the alarm to go off, so I should be fine there.
The gloves?
I figure the best way to confront the fear, short of actually *gasp* casting on, would be to talk about what I visualize. I like the feel, comfort, and ASL friendliness that fingerless gloves provide. But I didn’t want an utilitarian one, and didn’t want to knit a Fetching just yet. I wanted a fingerless glove that wasn’t afraid to be both practical and a bit over the top.
What I’m thinking is that, using variegated sportweight yarn, I’ll cast on and knit from the top down, starting about where the fingers join the hand. Do 3 or 4 rows of garter stitch, then switch to stockinette, remembering to put in stitches on waste yarn and increases for a thumb gusset. At the wrist, do a relatively long 2×2 cuff. All perfectly ordinary so far, right?
The fun part is where I would knit a few rounds of reverse stockinette after the cuff, create a fold line, an equal number of rounds of stockinette, and then start a lace pattern, perhaps feather and fan, and knit that in the round until it’s about to the base of the thumb. At that point I’d start knitting the lace pattern back and forth, with a slit in the lace cuff. I’d continue the cuff to a bit below the cast on row, knit the same number of garter stitch rows I started the glove with, and cast off.
Hopefully it’d look like a nice frothy cuff coming from your coat, even better if you had a neckwarmer in matching or coordinating yarn. Something a bit funky and just for fun, and yet being, one would hope, practical, especially given the warmth of the fingerless glove part under the lace.
