At last…
… I can show you one of my favorite designs from last spring: opera gloves, in a pattern I called Minaret for the graceful shape of the traveling stitches on the back of the hand. They don’t show up on the Knit/Purl website yet, but the pattern is available if you call the store (or stop by, if you’re in Portland). The official Shibui photo you’ll see if you follow the link shows the stitch pattern very nicely, but I like these pictures Mr. G took when I wore them to a gala we attended in May.*
Here you can see the pretty “mouse teeth” (as it’s called in German) picot edge. These take two skeins of Shibui Sock in Ink (or whatever color complements your fancy opera duds).
While you’re checking out the new Shibui offerings, make sure you take a gander at Sara Morris’s Columbia Cabled Pullover. My friend Patrick is modeling it, but I put it on at the shoot and wanted to steal the sample, it looked and felt so good.
*Someone’s going to ask about the necklace. It’s Victorian costume jewelry – I’m told it would have been attached to the neck of a gown rather than worn separately – and it’s been in the family so long nobody knows whom it belonged to originally. I inherited it from Granny, but I never saw her wear it. It was probably her grandmother’s.
Posted: September 23rd, 2008 at 2:35 pm
These gloves are beautiful, I never realized it was you that had designed them : ) When we saw this pattern at TNNA we just had to have it right away. We finally have them for sale now. Thank you for such a beautiful pattern.
Posted: September 23rd, 2008 at 2:59 pm
as stylish as ever. and congrats.
Posted: September 23rd, 2008 at 3:57 pm
ooooh! so pretty! i love them 🙂
Posted: September 23rd, 2008 at 4:33 pm
So pretty. They look great. 🙂
Posted: September 23rd, 2008 at 5:28 pm
Oh wow! I must call them tomorrow! Those are too gorgeous and I just bought some more shibui the other day hoping to be inspired!!!
Posted: September 23rd, 2008 at 7:00 pm
Oh! Those are incredibly elegant. I don’t care that desert temperatures are still in the triple digits– I need a pair.
Posted: September 23rd, 2008 at 7:22 pm
Heavens, those are so sharp, the coordinating crochet necklace caught my eye also, and I wondered “no way, she can do that too”…. Even if you didn’t I am absolutely positive you would learn in seconds flat!
Posted: September 23rd, 2008 at 8:34 pm
just lovely. i have 2 skeins of shubui but not of the same color. it just means i must find more. i recently found out shibui is from knit/purl…i am going to be in portland for christmas so i will get to purchase the 2 skeins i need in person. yippee.
Posted: September 24th, 2008 at 5:27 am
Wow, really stylish and lovely gloves 🙂 I am a sucker for fingerless glovs, I have fx made 3 pairs of Eunny Yangs “Endpaper mitts”. I really like the length of these.
Posted: September 24th, 2008 at 7:05 am
Those are lovely.
Posted: September 24th, 2008 at 7:20 am
So pretty and expertly crafted, as always!!!
Posted: September 24th, 2008 at 9:56 am
Those gloves are so lovely; I’m going to get the pattern too. I just love how you interpret vintage styles and accessories into modern dress. I’d like to do more of that myself, but am always afraid of looking “costume-y.” Your Granny had beautiful taste!!
Posted: September 25th, 2008 at 4:22 am
They’re gorgeous!
Posted: October 7th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
I found the Moon bootie pattern in a 1946 Knitting book called Children’s Fashions in Wool Styled by Hilde Volume 52 that I found in the local thrift shop. You did a great job interpreting it. Thanks.
Posted: October 8th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
LOVE these!
Posted: January 22nd, 2009 at 12:46 am
I love them and will probably do them for next winter …. Congratulations for your knitting. Great !