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Machine Knit Fly Me To the Moon Fingerless Mitts Pattern

Living in the northern midwest of the US this year has been cold. Just plain cold. It started earlier than usual and seemed to stay very cold. So, on the days of -10 not including a wind chill, it was cold.

A majority of the week days I am home with just the cats while my husband is at work and the kids are off at school. I let the house temperature drop a few degrees and add on my sweaters and blankets so that the furnace doesn’t have to run all day long for just me. The cats have never said they minded it being cooler in the house either.

This fall I published a crochet fingerless mitts pattern that my girls confiscated the ones I made. So, with this cooler winter weather I was ready to make another pair just for me.

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Machine Knit Wingspan Shawl Pattern

Recently I made the crochet Beyond the Sea Shawl and realized it had been a while since I did a knit shawl. Now, since the Estrela Lace machine knit shawl pattern is rectangle, I wanted to make one that was either triangular or crescent in shape.

Being machine knit, and working on an LK150 with a limited amount of needles posed a major constraint. To get the angles I wanted for the shape of the shawl using only 150 needles available on the mid gauge, the gauge would need to be so open that the stitches wouldn’t look right. Another hurdle was getting the rate of decrease to be easy to remember and work with, and not something that was really random and hard to remember as you were making the shawl.

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