I finished my first sock – and I love it! It is soft, fuzzy and delightful and the wool has just a little 1970’s hippy chic about it.

What I didn’t love though, was the quite sizeable ball of wool left over from the first skein.

I don’t like yarn leftovers. Well, I’ll rephrase that. I like a little teeny ball leftover, just incase I ever have to darn my socks, but not more than that. It always seems such a waste. Particularly when the yarn was expensive and is divine!

So yesterday I embarked on my first ever pair of fingerless gloves using the leftovers from the first skein – hoping that I would have enough yarn, but not too much. I decided I’d better use bigger needles, as there was no way I would have enough wool otherwise. In retrospect I think I might have found smaller needles and more stitches a little easier. But who can say? I didn’t have enough wool anyway, so the decision was pretty much made for me!

What I did find out is that fingerless gloves are a bit of a faff to knit. All that tying yourself in knots trying to knit an inch of finger on multiple needles …. But it worked and here they are…

And I have just the right amount of wool left over.

Which all in all is very satisfying! Now I just have to make the other halves of the pairs…

Helen

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