I've got a huge backlog of finished objects to share, and since the photos are already all edited and everything, I figured I should start throwing them up here. Here's something I've been wearing pretty much constantly since I finished them. I started them on the plane coming home from Rome, and finished them while I was holed up at home with bronchitis.
These were made with leftover yarn (Knitpicks Essential Tweed in Plum) from a pair of socks I haven't posted yet (I've abandoned chronological order at this point, but will post the socks eventually). The cables were inspired by the Deathly Hallows symbol, but I couldn't figure out how to make a triangle and had to settle for a diamond. I'm pretty sure I saw a method for making horizontal cables online once, but when I made the first of these, I was on an airplane somewhere over Greenland, so I had to work with what I had. I think the cables look nice, anyway, if not particularly Hallows-y.
I've decided that the trick to Harry Potter knitting is to take techniques that look traditional and skew them just slightly from what you'd expect. (Actually, that's the trick to the Harry Potter aesthetic period, even outside of knitting.) So, instead of a more common rope cable along the edges, I did this snakey thing. It is a traditional cable pattern, but I've always thought it looked weird, which was perfect for this project.
I'm liking the fingerless mitten thing so much that I'm considering making myself another pair. If I do, I'm going to do a gusset thumb instead of an afterthought thumb like I used on these. I'm finding that the afterthought thumb is just not that comfortable--it stretches strangely across my palm.
