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And Now, A Few Dachshunds

That's Mikey near the middle, doing the Joyful Dachshund Dance. Happy Friday, happy knitting!

Glove Train

Saartje and Nanette were talking about Shimada Toshiyuki's wonderful new Japanese book of Scandinavian accessories as well as the possibility of a glove-in, and as many know, I'm all-over glove-ins. I had my copy expedited and it arrived and I cast on only to have Close Encounters of the Entrelac Kind.

I headed resolutely back over to Saarte's and Nanette's for help and discovered they were knitting an entirely different glove! Saarte's are finished and beautiful, Nanette's are in progress and beautiful, and now, mine are coming along (slowly) as I catch up with some varigated gray and red wool.

The varigated background/foreground gives a kind of blurry look to the patterning; kind of Knitting-Impressionism. I like it. These gloves are companions to some mittens I'm working on for Anne, for when she gets tired of the mitts.

So! About this entrelac-stuff. Why am I getting a kind of knitted cone ^ at the intersections? And isn't the yellow simply glorious? It's the 'Abundant Harvest' colorway of merino sock wool by Kathryn Thomas, the Fleece Artist.