Sorry, but those colors are just so gorgeous that I had to take new photos ….

It’s midnight here, but I just finished Rose Garden Fingerless Gloves pattern as I promised. Use one skein of Koigu KPPPM to make them, this is a perfect accessory for spring season

Koigu pattern is downloadable here now and will be soon added to Ravelry. If you find any errors on it, please let me know

Download the pattern here:

Koigu gloves

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I struggle here a bit with those fingerless gloves that you see on the photo.

I knit them in 2010 from Koigu Mori yarn. The gloves have a new owner since then, all I have left is this photo.
Now someone would like to knit them and I’d be happy to provide the pattern, if I had one. But I don’t remember from where I took the lace edge pattern and I’m not very good at constructing patterns with only a photo on my hands.
All I know is that there were 10-12 stitches on one needle. Probably 12.

So if someone recognize this pattern or have an idea how it was made, please let me know! Someone who wants to make them will be extremely thankful, and once the mystery is solved, I promise to complete the pattern and list it as Ravelry download for free!

Just leave a comment here or write anniki@woolmint.com, thanks!

I posted about my blue cashmere gloves in the beginning of this month, but now I have finished pink gloves too.

Actually they were knitted some weeks ago, but now I finally got time to buy beads. Ribbon is still missing, I hope to get a nice one next week.

Lotus Yarns Pure Cashmere is still one of my favorite yarns and if I had a lot of money, I would knit only this But it costs about 3 times as much as the yarns I usually knit.

Those gloves have the same pattern as my Romantic Lace Gloves.

Yesterday I found those gorgeous hand knit sweaters from Gorsuch website.

Really, I haven´t seen something SOOOOO beautiful for ages! Visit the link, there is even more.
Unfortunately it is not possible to find out who made them, there is only a note that the sweaters are hand knitted in Germany.
The price is also pretty challenging, around $1400-$1600, but I don´t find it much for handmade item, which requires a lot of work, time and skills. Plus handmade items are luxury products anyway, so not everyone has to be able to afford them (this is just my personal opinion).

A few days ago there was a discussion about handmade and prices in one Facebook group, where most people stated that it is not possible to get a fair price for handmade items, because then no one buys them. For me, it is always sad to see if someone sells a pair of hand knit gloves for about $10, which hardly covers the cost.

I am sure that people buy Gorsuch sweaters despite of their price, so be unique and passionate, prefer high quality materials to cheap acrylics, invest into good photography and then a dream of being a full time artisan may not be impossible to accomplish.