Knitted wristwarmers

In a bid to try and get my ass in gear and post more often, I give you a long awaited post!! This is a prime example of my unorganisation, as I was meant to post about it in November!! Anyway, better late than never I guess.

I've been trying to keep myself occupied now that the darkness seems to be constant in London. Sadly that has meant watching endless amounts of Grey's Anatomy and Breaking Bad ( I've finished season 2 and STILL haven't found out whats so amazing about it).

With this in mind I've decided to turn couch sitting into a productive occasion.......enter knitting!!
I may have mentioned before that it took me three months to knit a scarf a few years ago (said scarf is in the above picture). Well when I was at home last I managed to find a few balls of the same wool and decided to nab it to make a hat with. Sadly I couldn't find a nice* hat pattern (*that was free) so decided instead to change my plans and knit some gloves. While perusing pinterest I stumbled across some lovely moss stitch wrist warmers. Now bearing in mind that I only just finished a tea cosy as my first solo knitting project, these seemed a bit adventurous for my skill level. Surprisingly no. I took some books out of Lewisham library, one of which was the excellent knit step by step. This book definitely helped me complete my wrist warmers.

Nevertheless there were some mishaps. Firstly the pattern calls for 54 stitches to be cast on and I have no idea why. I made them to these specifications and ended up with warmers that could fit both my wrists together with some leftover. Then came the mind boggling task of trying to work out how many stitches my wrists needed. After several attempts I ended up casting on 38 stitches and this seemed to work well. Despite the overestimate on wrist sizes the wrist warmers were pretty easy to do once I got into the flow of it. Moss stitch is a bit slow to knit, endlessly changing from knit to purl but hey....you end up with a really pretty pattern that makes your project look much more impressive that it is!

Sadly even with my new stitch count the two are not the same size.....but for a first time at moss stitch I'm pretty happy to have one slightly baggier than the other.

I also included a little thumb hole....which I wasn't meant to do but I hate having things that aren't far enough down my wrist so I thought having a hole for my thumb would stop the warmers going up my arm. It was easy to do, just don't sew up the whole side!

Have you ever had a project that just didn't turn out right? Or have you knitted something that you are really proud of?

Chloe x

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(I do apologise for the over use of the word wrist.....)