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I’ve become obsessed with fair-isle knitting, particularly using a solid and a varigated yarn, rather than two solids.

I blame Natalie and Jane for this, mostly.

Well, that, and I had no idea what else to do with rainbow yarn that’s likely to be too busy for anything other than stockinette, and maybe too loud for even that.

Luckily, I remembered that Nikki bought me some black alpaca for my birthday last year (on condition that I use it for something for me), so I dug it out and spun it up (it was lovely), and hopefully, there’ll be enough of both to make a pair of wristwarmers.

Now though, the fun part - making up the chart!

…even if it’s not the kind of learning the conference organisers expected you to do.

I went to a web conference at the beginning of the week, and for reasons I’m not quite sure, when I was leaving the house, I grabbed two balls of yarn, not just one, with the intention of knitting a pair of wristwarmers.

So, there I was, listening to presentations about javascript, when I was overcome by the urge to learn to knit fair-isle, and before I could help myself, out came the moleskine, scribble went the pen on the squares, and (very quietly) click click click went the needles, working on creating a pair of not just plain wristwarmers, but fair-isle wristwarmers.

My tension was a little tight and my stranding a little uneven til I figured out how best to wrangle the two strands, but all in all, I don’t think it was all that bad, for a first attempt.

…and for those of you who like that kind of thing, the money shot.