The Pirate Mittens are done!

And they fit just fine this time. This was such a fun project. I’m not sick of fair isle yet and have been printing out more free mitten patterns.

I’ve unpicked the sleeve cap of the Swirled Pentagon Pullover and frogged the pentagons. The test pentagon came out a fraction smaller than it should be, but since there’s no needle between the size I used previously and the one I’m now using I’m hoping the ribbiness of the pentagons means they’ll stretch enough to fit properly. I do have narrow shoulders, too. I’ve knit three of the new pentagons, and found the advantage of knitting them a second time is I can pick up stitches on the sleeve caps and eliminate the seam there. Coupla days and it should be finished (again).

The round yoke fair isle jumper had to be abandoned. After having stored the pattern and yarn together for the last year in anticipation of starting, it turned out the sub yarn is too thick. Reducing the needle size would have produced cardboard, and doing the math to reduce the stitches wasn’t going to be too scary at the yoke part.

So what am I going to knit instead? Well, I have two sock patterns and Starsky waiting on the sidelines, waving and shouting “Knit me! Knit me! Stop looking at fair isle mittens and knit me!”.