Lit. knit - Whit's mitts on the mountain

    Once again, the knitting and the reading serendipitously go together, with The Yarn Yard's Ochil (100% Falkland merino, shade: Ruck 'n' Maul) matching the colours of the new Canongate Canons edition of The Living Mountain.

    In progress here is the first of a pair of Whit's ribbed hand warmers from the always lovely Purl Bee. What I set out to make was Whit's colourblock hand warmers, but despite having cast on for the smaller size, and after two or three inches, moved down to needles smaller than specified, they were looking far too loose and baggy for a slim arm and hand. I rattled back and went for the ribbed ones instead, and the fit so far is as it should be.

    To get back to the wool itself, while ruck and maul are rugby terms, Ochil is the name of a range of hills between Stirling and Perth, not as large and dramatic as the Cairngorms of which Nan Shepherd writes, but fine enough nonetheless.

Comments

[Dark Puss]

A lovely looking pattern! I could certainly see them in another photoshoot with Morgana but I think we'd need a sexier colour than the charming camouflage shades you have chosen (for W?!).

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[Darlene]

Thanks for that link, Karen! I have a ball of Ultra Alpaca that would look really nice in this pattern.

[Dancing Beastie]

Good to learn that Canongate are reissuing Nan Shepherd's book. I read it last winter, when a snowboarding accident kept me from enjoying the Cairngorms much in person. Her understated style is immensely evocative of those wonderful hills and forests.