I had to go down to southern
Utah for work and took my knitting along. Moab is always beautiful but even
more so in the spring. We hiked and visited the desert scenery and high
mountains. In short, it fed my soul. The photo below is my son hiking up to Gemini Bridges.
This was also a good
opportunity to get a good way on my new design. I decided to make mittens with
the sampler imagery using Roositud. It was a good plan except that it was a
complete disaster. I was so eager to begin learning the new technique on this
new pattern that I totally miscalculated my gauge. The mitten is gigantic and
would only fit the largest of hands.
And… I think the imagery
that I used from the sampler is not the best for Roositud. From looking at many
other patterns using this technique, it looks like geometric patterns work
best. The delicate floral patterns just look puckered and strange.
But, I do love this pattern.
So, I am going to do my math right and fix my gauge and then use good old
fashioned duplicate stitch for the sampler patterns on the back of the mitten.
It adheres more to the spirit of the cross stitch anyway. Round 2 of Sarah’s
Sampler Mittens coming up.
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