Can I just say, I love the texture of these! It's almost a diamond patterns, but at the same time it's still mostly stockinette. It's absolutely gorgeous.
I've been following this pattern as faithfully as I can. Some parts are vague of course. I like that this pattern was written assuming that the knitter knows what they are doing. I mean, I know that's pretty much standard for patterns of the era, but still.
That's not to say there haven't been parts that I've had to fudge/figure out because it was vague. The instructions for the thumb say to work the stitch pattern on the thumb, but since the thumb's stitch count is changing every couple rows you actually have to think about where you're placing your purl bumps. I ended up charting it out, which would probably be a good idea even if it was row by row instructions.
I have tweaked just a couple things though:
- The instructions for an increase that are written in the beginning of the book amount to a yarn over. I didn't want any holes, so I substituted a backwards loop.
- It instructs you to cast on 7 over the thumb hole. Doing so results in an odd stitch count, so I cast on 8 instead. I figure a one stitch difference won't make a lot of width difference, and it has the advantage of keeping the stitch count a multiple of 4. I plan on doing a similar thing with the thumb - as it is written the thumb will be 21 stitches around - 22 with the extra cast on. I'll have to see when I get there if I go for increasing or decreasing.
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