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MarvieN
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I worked on one mitten all yesterday afternoon, into the night, and into the wee hours of the morning. I couldn't find a single pattern I liked or understood so I attempted to canabalize several. I took the cuff from one (bc it was worked BLO vs FP/BP) I stole the body of the mitten from SamplerLady, I tried to follow someone else's directions for a thumb HA! It was the ugliest thumb in existance. Frogged
it and went out to smoke, while I sat there I remembered the turtle I'd made the other day, while making his head I'd commented to myself that it sort of resembled a finger for a glove, so I found his pattern and stole his head, making a few increases to make it work around my big knuckles, and I now have a beautiful, smooth thumb sewn onto the body of this mitten from he!!
The thing that's giving me trouble is the part from the thumb up. (Now, remember, I'm doing fingerless with a flappy thing.) I followed (loosely) another patterns flappy thing, which instructed me to stitch across the back of the mitten for so many stitches (which I had to adjust because I have freakishly large hands for my 5' body) then chain so many stitches (which ended up being 2 stitches more than what you do across the back) so I counted how many I did across the back, added two more chains, then followed the directions and attached it to the first stitch on the back... now that took a few tries before I finally figured out, but I managed it, the durn thing kept looking wrong at first.
So I now have the start of the flap, the directions tell me to stitch around (ok well they say to stitch across the chain, then across the back, that ended up being around basically) so I did that. So far so good. Then the directions started talking about 2sctog (I was using hdc but that wasn't what got me) I assumed that 2 sctog meant decrease?? So I decreased at the sides, which was where it worked out that the 2 sctog were located, even though the count was different from mine. I kept going like that for a while and ended up with a very odd looking thing. It did NOT look like the nicely rounded top mittens I have always known. I frogged it (should have taken a pic, sorry) and tried again, and again. I have frogged this poor thing so many times, the yarn is crying out to me to please stoppit!
I refuse to give up on this (which is my usual choice when I can't get something right) I really want a pair of mittens out of this white wool ease. It's soooooo soft and pretty.
So I am going to try again, with a different yarn till I get it right so I don't upset my pretty yarn anymore, and I would really appreciate some help getting this thing right.
So my QOTD is : How do you make a nice curved mitten top??
Thanks,
Marvie
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