It’s so cute! I need to work on knitting looser. The pattern is puckering a bit.

This is mosaic knitting which is colorwork, knitting with one color per row and slipping stitches where you want to bring color from the previous row into your working row. Maybe this will be a good intermediate technique to get me used to proper tension for fair isle, which I suck at.

It’s too small for me, so I’m giving it to Abby and Liv to (fight over) (or lose*) share. Once the other one is done I’ll start a bigger pair for me with either some of my delicious sock yarn or my year old Kauni**.

Does anyone know how to bind off the second picot hem without creating an unpleasant ridge on the inside? I purled the working stitch together with a stitch picked up from the inside, and bound off all in the same round. Purling it was better than knitting it, and keeping it loose helped it to feel softer, but that ridge annoys me.

*Abby and Liv have each lost their tweedy fingerless mitts. The ones I made from wool, alpaca and silk that I washed, dyed, blended, carded, and spun. Then designed and knit for them.

**I’m not so sure I like my Kauni anymore. It’s beautiful, but it’s berry, burgundy, and cool pink. They’re not really my colors. And I can’t spell burgundy to save my life. I always get spell checked.

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