It’s been a bit of a glove factory around here so I thought I’d do something a little different: wristwarmers! But seriously, I’ve been amassing a collection lately of beautiful photos of beautiful wristwarmers (armwarmers, sweaterless sleeves, whatever you want to call them). I love them. The urge was rolling around in the back of my mind, waiting for me to decide what non-grey color I might want to use, and then I ran across the photo above and died. Navy! My favorite. Why didn’t I think of it?
The photo and knitting are by the Ravelry member known as Cosmea, and she’s a better woman than I am. Hers are lace weight, so very fine. Mine are DK. (Casdade Yarns Pure Alpaca, to be specific.) So mine are 42 sts per round to her 64. I love the way the teeny rolled stockinette edge looks at lace weight, but would find it bothersome at a larger size. Still, I wanted that edge to look as unfinished as possible, so I just did two rounds of 1×1 ribbing. I originally thought I’d increase needle size and/or add a few stitches as I worked my way up the arm — I wanted them to be able to go all the way to my elbow even if I had them pulled down to the tips of my fingers — but wound up just sticking with US3 and 42 stitches all the way. I did an inch of ribbing (and Jeny’s Surprisingly Stretchy Bind-Off) at the elbow end, so it’s clear which way they go on. Serious, serious love.
Now to make the other one …
