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Striped armwarmers

Alina Beate Haugene — Wed, 14 May 2008 13:43:03 +0000

A little while ago I figured I could problably knit christmas/birthday gifts. That helps me for having something to do, I give away something crafty, and maybe it is just the perfect gift?

Anyway, I decided that my sister could get some armwarmers, seeing as it seems as it is her kind of thing. I made my choice upon some striped armwarmers in black and white. The yarn is a little bit thick and I used size 5,5 needles.

I basically casted on 34 stitches. Knitted one round, then one round purl, another purl, and last a normal round again. Then I knitted 5 stitches, casted off 4, the continued on the round, then started onto the next round, when I reached the part where I had casted off some stitches in the previous round, I added 4 stitches, making the number of stitches back to 34. Then I knitted round 3 and 4. Before beginning at the beginning again (except the thumb hole thing). Knitted until I had my desired width. After that I casted all the stitches off and sewed the armwarmer together. Then knitted the other.

Pictures below.

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One little white armwarmer

Alina Beate Haugene — Wed, 14 May 2008 12:59:32 +0000

I recently tried to make several armwarmers, and trying out different techniques. Not so advaced, but a little. I had a little bit of white yarn left over from a previous project, so I decided to try something new. I casted on 40 stitches on four needles. I also knitted with another thicker, whiter tread, a ’string’ that goes upwards. . . See pictures, difficult to explain. How I did that was to knit two with my MC, then one purl with the other tread, then finish knitting the round, then knitting three MC stitches, one purl with the other, and so on until I reached the part when the thumb were to be made. I am not a very experienced knitter, so I just did what was easiest (what I thought at least) to make the thumb. I turned my knitting around and knitted a round (when the knitting was turned I knitted purl), then turned it again, and so on until the thumb hole was done, then I knitted as usual until the length I wanted was acquired.

But the result was to too comforting. I now know that knitting like this isnt really comfortable. As the knitting doesn’t stretch when you take it on. But I will still post the pictures. I like the other white tread that circles around the arm warmer. It was a nice lesson.

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One armwarmer and a thumbwarmer

Alina Beate Haugene — Wed, 14 May 2008 12:39:29 +0000

A couple of weeks ago I went to a very big party for all the people in Trondheim (my city) who had graduated from high school. In Norway there is a big celebration after you finish high school, it is called “Russetiden” or “Russ”. And I am not sure, but I think this is unique for Norway. Anyway during this time (which is in may) we party a lot. A bit too much some might say. Everybody wears these special pants and clothing in a colour according to what you have studied. I was a red “Russ”. So going to this party meant that I should wear these kind of clothes again. Unfortunately for me, my clothing is back home to my parents. So I decided I could just wear something else red. I had a shaw and shoes. But wanted something more, so I knitted a arm warmer (I were supposed to knit two, but I ran out of yarn, and the store closed just as I realized this), and there were enough yarn for a thumb warmer, so that was it.

I knitted it exactly as I did with the short black arm warmers (see an earlier post), except I casted on 20 stitches instead.

Pictures below of my little work.

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Short black armwarmers

Alina Beate Haugene — Wed, 14 May 2008 11:37:24 +0000

In the beginning of may my boyfriend I went travelling to his mums family down south in Skien. It was a 12-hour trip, so I had decided to knit something during the trip there and back again. I choosed to knit these easy armwarmers (I dont think they are called that, but I cant seem to find the right english name). They are very short, because that was what my guinea pig wanted (Johnny).

The pattern is quite easy, all I did was to cast on 30 stiches on a needle. And then I knitted in this pattern: 1 round, 1 purl round, 1 purl round, 1 round. Then I knitted 5 stiches, then I bind off 4 stiches and continued on round. When the second round started I knitted until the hole I made in the previous round, and I added 4 stiches, making the number of stiches back to 30. Now there is a hole there to the thumb. Then I just continued on round number 3 and 4. And from the beginning again (except the hole thing). Continued until the desired width was aquired. Quite easy :) Then I sewed it together. Done !

The picture below is my boyfriend with his new gloves.

A closer-up onto the armwarmers:

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