Wrist warmers

Thinking about the fall and winter almost always makes me want to create some warm clothing... Wrist warmers, for example! And as it's slowly getting colder outside, I find a lot of inspiration these days...

I had some beautiful gray yarn, and started knitting on garter webbings, to create wrist warmers that wouldn't need sewing-together when all the knitting was done. Of course I couldn't just settle with ordinary rib stich; I made a brede on one of its sides, and then tried to crochet some lace at the ends of it. I think it came out kind of cute, however I had to start over several times to get the size right, and it still turned out way too small to be comfy, as it's apparently more or less impossible to estimate the finished size when doing it like this. And it doesn't have a hole for the thumb, either.

I then decided to go for the kind of wrist warmers that are to be sewn together..

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I used knitting needles in sizes 4 mm, and with 35 stiches on each row, I knitted one row even, one row uneven, X one row uneven, one row even, one row uneven Y, then repeating from X to Y until the pieces were long enough to reach around my wrists. I made sure that I ended up with even rows at both the beginning and the end of the piece (at the same side).

Eventually I sewed them together when inside out (with the ending even rows outwards), leaving room for the thumbs, and turned them the right way out.

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Crocheting lace really isn't one of my stronger sides, and I think it was part reason for why the grey one turned out so small, so I decided to simply thread some satin ribbons around these and finish with a bow. The ribbons can easily be removed, if doing winter activities that would jeopardize their lasting.

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Last but not least: it's one of my best friends' birthday today, and the blue pair is intended for her. The black ones, I think will be a Christmas gift for myself!

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Love,

Ellinor