Black Yarn

My eyes are going.  I’ve been in denial about this for a while now.  I couldn’t really understand before when my mum would said that she could only knit with dark coloured yarn during the day with good strong light over her shoulder.  Now I get it.

Even though I just bought new glasses with – *whisper* – progressive lenses, I’m still having difficulty seeing what I’m doing with a couple of my current projects when I’m knitting in the evening.  I’m using black yarn.

The Elann order of the black viscose/cotton/linen blend is turning into this multi-directional lace cardigan designed by Mari Lynn Patrick in VK.  I like the waist shaping on the back.  The fronts are interesting too since they are knit on the bias.  Unfortunately the instructions are a bit vague, especially for the fronts. I imagine all the details were edited out in an effort to save space in the magazine.

The second black project is a pair of men’s gloves.  I’m still working on perfecting a new glove pattern.  I’m finding that people’s fingers just don’t come in uniform lengths.  Everyone seems to have very different finger measurements even when their palm circumference and hand length measurements are the same.  I’m not sure why this surprised me when I know that an average measurement is just that – the average of a whole range of measurements both larger and smaller.