Fingerless Gloves of Blindness and Insanity - Super Mario-inspired Fair Isle

[leahseraph]

A while ago (maybe a year?  Maybe two?) my brother wanted fingerless gloves.  They were great to work on while I was on vacation at my mother's house, but then real life resumed and they were too complex to actually work on while in transit or anything, so they didn't get finished for a long, long time.




Even I think I'm insane for the color work.  There wasn't really any pattern except maybe I flipped through Alice Starmore (http://www.amazon.com/Alice-Starmores-Book-Fair-Knitting/dp/0918804973) for ideas about patterns at some point.  I looked at knitty for ideas about how to divide for fingers, but at this point I basically just wing it anyway (I've made a fair number of pairs of gloves).  Usually it works out.  When you're doing the second one you at least have a template to follow.

And yes, that is a fire flower:
http://themushroomkingdom.net/images/smb/fire_flower.gif
More or less.

[loca4crafts]

These are incredible.  I love the colorwork and the design.  Nice work.  Wow.  I am in awe

[beccacc]

freaking amazing
i started a pair of fingerless mitts with intense colorwork a year ago and have yet to finish them myself. same deal, started them when i was away and then when i got home i got too busyd

[hchambers]

wow i am impressed! i can't even figure out how to make the fingerless gloves out of one color..you're design is beautiful!

[lil_abi]

Wow.  Fire flower.  Thought these were henna from the thumbnail!!!

[jwill]

haha i love that it's the mario fire flower!! Very nifty

[milkweed*]

Those are SO COOL.

[MareMare]

Those are flingin-flangin amazing! Not only for the fabulous complicated stitches, but for making it Mario!

[KrisCreates]

Dude these are awesome!!!    When I saw the thumbnail I was like "Is that Mario flowers!?!"  so cool...

[Pogo]

These are beyond awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
These rock and now to the wist them!!