I don't dress up often. Weddings are usually the only reason I get dolled up and I attend an average of 1 wedding every 3 years. Last month, my aunt got married! I had plenty of notice that the wedding was in March and it was in Pennsylvania. I went to look for a cool weather dress, because I figured with this winter's "Polar Vortex" it would probably be very cold. I guess there is no such thing as a fashionable formal winter dress because everything I found was sleeveless or strapless. I ended up with a strapless dress, tights and I decided to knit myself a pair of Opera Gloves!
I had
this free pattern for ruffle gloves 'burning a hole in my pocket', so I decided to edit the pattern to make them fit above the elbow. I held 2 strands together as I knitted, 1 strand of a DK weight silk/wool blend and 1strand of a lace weight yarn that had a bit of glimmer.
(Details can be found here)
Then I picked 3 matching-ish sets of vintage buttons from my enormous collection to add a bit more sparkle to the gloves. They turned out to be super cute....
...and helped accentuate my attitude :-)
Until next time, Happy Knitting!
3 comments:
Seriously, gloves are looking great and I hope they are warm too. Buttons added extra charm to this simple dress because as you said they are super cute. Sure, they are.
Knitting is not an easy task and not everyone can do it but nothing is better than home knitted material. Thanks for sharing the post with us
I haven't followed along for several years it seems. Do you still blog. I think I followed two of your blogs initially.
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