Digitabulum Fingerless Mittens

It has been quite some time since I posted and thought it would be a good idea to start out the new year with a free pattern!  Hope you enjoy it!!

Digitabulum

A Free pattern by Stephanie Stratton of LunabudKnits

Yarns:
1 skein Silky Flamme by Elsebeth Lavold. 
1 small 20 yard skein of Handspun yarn with approximately 6 wraps per inch or WPI which is the same as the Silky Flamme used.

Needles:
US 10 DPNS

Notions:
Darning needle, scrap yarn and stitch marker to mark beginning of rounds.

*NOTES* If you do not want to use handspun, there should be enough yardage to the Silky Flamme to knit both pair of gloves.

Wrist
Using the Longtail method, cast on 21 stitches using handspun yarn. Rounds 1-11: K2 p1 ribbing for 11 rounds 

Rounds 12-13: Change to commercial yarn and do 2 rounds of k2p1 ribbing. 

Rounds 14-16: Knit all.

Thumb Gusset
Round 1. K1 m1 to last stitch m1 k1. 

Round 2. K all 

Repeat 1 & 2 until there are 31 total stitches. 

K 7 rounds. 

Knit to the last 4 stitches and slip them onto waste yarn. Slip the first 4 of the next round to the waste yarn as well.

Fingerless Fingers 

Re-join in the round. 

Rounds 1-5: Knit all. 

Round 6: K2 p1 to the last 2 stitches and purl 2 together. (21 stitches) Rounds 7-12: Switch to handspun. K2 P1 ribbing on every round. 
Bind Off.

Thumb 

Pick up the 8 stitches held on waste yarn. In the corner pick up two stitches of the previous row and knit them tog. There should be 9 stitches. 

Rounds 1-5: K2,p1 ribbing. 

Bind Off all.

A Free pattern by Stephanie Stratton of LunabudKnits

Copyright 2012 Stephanie Stratton.  May not be sold, but can be freely givenJ

Fingers crossed, Here is the PDF!

The waiting game.....

La-Da-Dee-La-Da-Da........

Some big news and some little news all in one post here. Will start w/ the big news. ........

I'm an Auntie for the 8th time! My newest nephew was born in Japan on Saturday. I haven't seen pictures yet, but Mom assures me he perfect in every way. She is already devising ways to kidnap him back to the States...lol Just kidding there, but I'm sure the little fellow knows that his Glammy loves him very much! And yep, I said Glammy. Mom has decided she is not Granny, she is Glammy and does it ever fit her to a T!

Next in line is the waiting game I like to play prior to an ordered wheel arriving. Sometimes Louet gets a little backed up and it takes wheels a little bit longer to get here that expected. The wheel coming is an S17 that I will be painting with cute little turtles and then re-packaging to be shipped to Russia! Yep, you heard me correct. I'll be shipping it to Russia after it is painted. How fun is that!?!

So while I have been waiting, I finished up a few little projects from here there and every where.

The Cowl is finally finished... Free Pattern coming later:)

Space Cadet Fingerless Mittens are Finished. Pattern also coming later!

And It wouldn't be a proper Lunabud Post w/ out a picture of Little Kitty who is not quite so little any more. Here he is grabbing my pajama button.

From there, he likes to try and pull my buttons off. He really is a nutty Little Kitty...lol

If you see this face you can rest assured the Kitty is up to absolutely NO GOOD!

Handspun fingerless gloves

Oooh, I love spinning blended silk singles! The last batch I did was using alpaca, firestar, glitz, sari silk and silk hankies and it was devine! Here is how I worked in the hankies. After they are dyed, cut them into quarters and pull them apart with your hands before feeding them into the carder. You are going to want to recard this blend several times to get a good mix. The joy of this prep is that you get some very lovely silky slubs in your yarn. You can see the results in the finished gloves below.



I've got a smidge of the yarn left over some where. If I ever find it, I'll post a pic of that too:)