Mother-Daughter Knitting Class

I was going to be so clever, posting this entry from school, putting up the picture... that's on my other machine. I got a new laptop for research (pumped with memory and disk space for insense computational analysis) so I'm not bringing my personal machine anymore. And that's the one with the pictures, of course. I'll add the pictures when I get home tonight.

This weekend my mom and I are going to take a class from Beth Brown-Reinsel at LYS A Knitted Peace in Littleton, CO. My mom and a friend of hers took a class on aran design from Beth last year and thoroughly enjoyed themselves. I'll be joining them this year for Sanquhar gloves. These fair isle gloves were originally knit in the burgh of Sanquhar, Scotland. I read a lot of history about them from the Sanquhar Tollbooth Museum website last week. The museum has many gloves on display with a variety of traditional patterns. No pictures of these on the website, though. Road trip, anyone?

My mom has already knit these gloves in blue and white Zephyr on 000 needles! She loved Beth's class and wanted to take a class with me so much that she's going to take the class anyway. :) Our homework was to swatch to get 9-11 st/in in a 1x1 fair isle check with our selected yarn and then knit 1.5" of corrogated ribbing.

(What's six hours between friends?)

After several failures in experiments with contrast, I chose Lorna's Laces Shepard Sock Georgetown with an off-white Lang for the other color. I think they're going to very pretty, but also subtle. I, um, forgot to take pictures of mom's cuff, but it's also very pretty. Maybe we can make a scan tonight and add that in.

The biggest challenge for this class? My first fair isle on dpns? Finding colors that have enough, but not too much, contrast? Suffering the anticipation of a fabulous class and beautiful gloves? Overcoming second-glove syndrome?

No -- getting up early enough to drive an hour to be at class at 9!