Far out Fingerless Gloves

I started knitting the fingerless cable gloves from Holiday Knits last weekend, and I finally had time to get past the wrist. As usual, I am knitting this in a different yarn/gauge than the pattern called for, so math had to be done and charts had to be drawn. I am using Dalegarn Heilo in a black and white tweed pattern and I think it lends itself to this piece very well. Since this photograph was taken late yesterday afternoon, I have finished the whole glove and now I just need to weave in the ends. Oh yeah, and make the other glove.

I have a whole bunch of things I'm thinking about and have sketched for my next project, but I don't know how to get started. And what I should probably do is start knitting Christmas presents, since it's always my dream to give only handmade gifts. Unfortunately I usually fantasize about this up until Christmas Eve Day when it's too late to do anything about it.

There was a great article about Andrea Zittel in the arts section of today's New York Times. She is a very non-traditional artist who starts doing something that interests her and then decides later how it will fit into an art context. Her work encompasses a variety of media. Some of her pieces are like industrial design, some are clothing, but all of her work revolves around daily living, as far as I can tell. What I'm most fascinated with is her Personal Uniforms series. The article says she paid a tailor to make her a sturdy black linen dress to serve as her uniform when she was a gallery assistant back in 1991. She wore it every day for six months. On Zittel's web site there are photographs of that and subsequent uniforms. Go to www.zittel.org, click on works in the top bar, then click on A-Z Personal Uniforms in the side frame.

This got me wondering what my uniform would be if I could only wear one thing for the next few months. And what would I add to it to give it daily flair? I hope to have an answer to this in the next few posts.

The article also mentions a knitter friend of Andrea Zittel's named Lisa Anne Auerbach. Her site is well worth checking out.