Arm-Warmers in July?!?
It seems counter-intuitive, I know, and I had intended to wait until cooler weather set in before putting these up for sale. But I tend to carry my knitting with me wherever I go, including events where I am doing tarot readings (mostly because I have one of those idle-hands-are-the-devil’s-playground attitudes ingrained), and people regularly ask what I am knitting. When I tell them, and show them what these things look like when worn, they get all excited and ask if I have them online for sale. So, I’ve finally gotten around to putting a bunch of them in my Etsy shop. 🙂
The majority of these arm-warmer sets are knitted from various kinds of Noro yarn – lovely hand-dyed yarns from Japan. The most basic sets are pure wool, and the fancier sets are made from silk/mohair/wool blends or in one case a wool/silk/alpaca/mohair/angora blend (which feels incredible!). I’ve also got some eyelash yarns that I’ve got earmarked to make some of these sets with, so I’ll be putting some of those up once I’ve burned through my current batch of Noro.
The pattern is something that I made myself after trying someone else’s fingerless glove pattern that just didn’t satisfy me – the gusset for the thumb was too loose and bulky, and the wrist area was too short for my liking. I wanted something more fitted and elegant, and something with some length on it to keep me warm. Thanks to my genes and my current New England habitat I am pretty constantly cold, and especially in scorching weather find that when I go from the heat outside into air-conditioned insides I wind up shivering. Having something small that I can carry with me to pull on and off that coordinates with my outfit and actually adds to visual interest while keeping the air-conditioning-shivers at bay has turned out to be even more useful than I anticipated. Earlier in the summer when I was at Unifier Festival and the weather couldn’t make up its mind, I found these especially fun for layering with. And my inner fashion maven loves fun accessories, so I’ll admit to having made several different pairs of these for myself, no doubt with more to come, because despite my goth leanings I can’t resist a splash of colour in the sea of black.
