Original Pattern: Corrie Fair Isle Vest
Knitter Extraordinaire: Caroline (Ravelry ID)
Mods: Took the colourwork chart from the vest pattern and made fair isle fingerless mitts instead. Details, including a great chart for the thumb gusset, can be found on her project page here.
What Makes This Awesome: Caroline is back on Mod Mondays with another gorgeous take on turning a big colourwork project into a smaller one. I'm so impressed are how well she scaled down the pattern, and the thumb gusset in the pattern is fantastic. Smaller colourwork projects are a great way to try out fair isle without the commitment of a huge project. And I love stranded mitts! They are beautiful.
10 comments:
OMG! Loved the vest and now love the gloves!!!
oooh... i do love me some fair isle. and what a great color scheme!
I've not done fair isle before and this inspires me to give it a try since I can probably manage the smaller scale. Great colors, too!
Your colour scheme is lovely - they look beautiful !
I love colourwork but like you mentioned the commitment is rather daunting so accessories are the perfect amount of knitting to commit to :D
Beautiful, they are so awesome! Love the photo too.
Love the combination of colours!
Wow, so pretty!
Lovely color scheme, and a much more realistic fair isle project for those of us who don't love knitting with two yarns :)
Also, I saw this while browsing Ravelry and thought I'd nominate it for a future Modification Monday spot :)
http://www.ravelry.com/projects/uncia/shifting-sands-scarf
(Edited to fix some grammar!!!)
What a great idea! The colors she used for these mitts are gorgeous!
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