...the Bar Mitts are finished...and I'm happy with the way they turned out...
...a couple of notes about the pattern...it calls for felting DK weight yarn...and since I'm vegan and I don't knit with wool...I just decided to follow the pattern but use a thicker worsted weight yarn...it seems to work well...and I think they will be thick enough to block air flow...
...the other thing was...I was blindly following the pattern...as you do...you know...and she leaves one end open for a mirror...so that's what I did...and since she recommends that you insert elastic on that end...I decided to tie mine up with string...so I crocheted a couple of lengths of chain stitch...
...and wove that into the ribbed ends...
...it was a little bit tedious to do that...
...but I thought I'd have a nice drawstring to keep things snug...
...but when I actually took them out to my bike...you can see that my mirror is not on the end the way hers is...so I don't need either end open on mine...haha...you'd have thought that I would have remembered the placement of my mirror on my 25 year old bicycle...haha...
...but I didn't...no bother though...I just removed the drawstrings and sewed up the ends...they fit nice and snugly around the brake mounts so there's no need for elastic or drawstring there...and they also fit nice and snugly around my hands...I'm just trying them out here...I always wear biking gloves so the top of my hand and wrist will be covered anyway...these mitts will just keep my fingers nice and toasty...
...so...I decided to use the extra yarn and make a bike seat cover...
...because you can see...my seat is not in the best of shape...
....so I took some scrap paper and just smooshed and molded it around the seat...
...and cut that shape out...
...then I laid that flat on some more scrap paper...I keep any odd bits of paper that is not printed on the back just for such a purpose...
...and I traced around the shape I'd cut out...a little bit larger...I'm going to be sewing this seat on over the old one...
...so here's the pattern...it looks huge...haha...
...then I measured a gauge on the Bar Mitts...and just measured every inch up on the seat...I'll use that as a "pattern"...and just knit freehand to those dimensions...it should work...wink...
...what's in your workbasket?...
~Have a lovely day!
Those mitts are cute - I don't plan to be riding my bike in the cold though!! And your seat is much too narrow for my tush. I've got the extra wide padded kind. Haha. Love, K
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