Criss Cross Mitts Update Defines the Thumb Gusset

So recently I did another pair of the Criss Cross Mitts and as I knit these I am always trying to improve the pattern. I have now knitted the thumb gusset within the pattern and makes for a much more finished look of the criss cross. Really interesting...Very hard to put this on paper. Have tried but not easy to write down in an easy manner how to do intarsia knitting and creating the thumb gusset in the correct place with the pattern. One day.......

Criss Cross thumb with completed box.

Criss Cross with better definition.

Criss Cross Mitts Update

Last week I received a really nice compliment on the criss cross mitts that I sold to a woman in Washington...she liked them so much that I received an order for 2 more pairs. Think this might be a candidate for a pattern. So I am off knitting as fast as I can with sticks and string! Yahoo!

Intarsia in the Round Again.....

Intarsia in the round...more on this method. Still working on the best way to do this method in the round...Came across this site:

http://www.suite101.com/content/knitting-with-colour-a136132

Thought I would keep this on my blog so I can reference it.
Work to the colour change.
Slip every stitch of your contrast colour.
Turn the work, twist the yarns to ensure no gaps and purl the stitches, thus returning the yarn back to the beginning of the motif.
Turn and slip the stitches just purled.
Proceed as normal.

I love this explanation...soooo simple! Now I have to do a sample up.