Ilaisa's Wristies

Recipient: Mrs. C (DD1's teacher)
Designer: Myrrhia Resneck
Pattern: Ilaisa's Wristies
Source: Ravelry
Due: December 19, 2008
Colours: Muted pinks, purples, teal greens, yellows
Yarn: Phildar "Exciting" 51% wool/49% viscose, worsted weight
WIP status: Five rows into second glove

2008-Dec-10

I had a heart-stopping moment this week when I was going over the master plan for all the Christmas gifts and realised I'd forgotten about DD1's teacher.

Way to go, brain.

Fortunately, I was able to come up with a solution: I'm using Myrrhia Resneck's Ilaisa's Wristies pattern, which is a free fingerless gloves pattern that looks pretty fantastic. It has instructions to accommodate FIVE different yarn weights - how awesomely versatile is that? I'm going to be using the three skeins of Phildar Exciting yarn that I bought at Value Village this summer. It's a really silky 51/49 blend of wool and viscose with lovely, soft variegating colours. I swatched it up and showed it to DD1, and she approved. (If she hadn't, I had a backup plan to use some of the cone of aqua wool/angora/nylon (I think that was the blend, anyway) laceweight that June gifted me with a while back...this fortunately turned out to be unnecessary, but how cool is that, that I could've substituted a laceweight if the worsted hadn't worked out?)

They work up really damn quickly:



That is one completed glove (minus the weaving in of ends, which I have tucked out of sight for the sake of a pretty picture) and about five rows done on glove #2. This represents one day of commuting time. Not bad, eh?

They're a little loose on me, but I'm pretty sure the teacher's hands are bigger than mine, so hopefully the fit will be ideal.

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