Project Proposal

Project Proposal. I am a member of a knitting group that crafts items as a competition to see which group earns the most points. It's based on the Harry Potter school called Hogwarts. This is a post of my proposal information. I'm excited to make this Mitten Garland for this upcoming Christmas. I got the pattern for free from the knitpicks website this link will take you straight to the pattern. The pattern is for solid color mittens but by looking at some charts I think I will be able to use them with this pattern. It is going to be a challenge since I don't know very much about colorwork. You can see in the picture one of my first attempts and it is going to take me a while to get the tension right with stranded knitting. Here's hoping for the best!

 

Name: christinahwest
House: Gryffindor
Year: Second Year
OWL and option Arithmancy option 1: craft multiples of the same item
Project/Pattern(s): Advent Mittens (Smitten A holiday Garland)
Sequence & Challenge: I plan to craft 24 little mittens in the round completing 8 a month. By the end of the project I hope to be proficient in a variety of color techniques including corrugated ribbing, stranded using charts and stripes. I am new to the world of colorwork so this will be a study in these different techniques. I have already knit a few things with stripes however this will (hopefully) be my first success at stranded color work. There will also be a lot of ends to weave in-which is another thing I am learning.
50% Mark:12 done by June 15
Photos of Supplies and Swatch: I will be using US size 3 needles and I have 6 balls of Knit Picks Palette. The project should only take 3 balls but I have extra yarn just in case.

Update 5/27/11: The project proposal was approved I will have to make 31 mittens instead of just 24 though. 24 just wasn't ambitious enough for an OWL project.  Most of the mittens should include colorwork. I already have 8 knit and need to do 2 more for May if I want to stay on schedule. I took my knitting to the hospital with my husband earlier this week (for details see may family update) and they wouldn't let me bring my scissors into the emergency room. So I have one mitten that has no colorwork at all since I didn't want to hassle with not having scissors to do stripes. Since I will be knitting 7 more mittens than I have use for with the mitten garland I plan on using the rest to garnish Christmas presents or use as tree ornaments. Here is what I have so far:

I think I have a pretty good handle on stripes and they have turned out pretty well. The white and green mittens with vertical stripes on the cuff have corrugated ribbing. This was my first time with this technique and it wasn't too difficult. The mittens with chart work (the intricate patterns) are still a struggle for me though. Still learning tension I guess. Hopefully I will get there soon.

June Update: I have 17 done so i'm a little behind but this is what I have so far: