The long overdue Vienna pics

At long last, I spent a few minutes and figured out how to post pictures, no it's not hard, I was just dreading having trouble and got myself all bolluxed up. (Is that how you spell bolluxed?)

Anyway, here is my fingerless glove at the UN in Vienna, you can get a sense of the size of the flag circle from the picture. My hand is covering the fountain that stands in the center of the circle. I don't know that this picture would look much different in summer than in winter since it doesn't look like they have much by way of foliage in the Vienna Internation Center itself.


And since you couldn't really see the glove itself in the previous picture. Here is a shot of the right glove inside the building at a fountain in one of the hallways off the main lobby.

The pattern is pretty cool and I love the saturation of the colors in the Mountain Colors Bearfoot yarn that I used.

Specs on the gloves:
Pattern: Marnie Maclean's Lake Park Gloves
Yarn: Mountain Colors Bearfoot in Eureka
Needles: Sox Sticks Size 1

I did come up with a great trick when I was making the fingers (I suppose we call them fingerless gloves even though they really have fingers because fingertipless gloves is just too big a mouthful and/or too long to spell for non-Germans). This pattern, and it seems from a brief survey many patterns, tells you to start making the fingers at the pinky, casting on a couple of extra stitches for the space between the fingers. It's pretty easy until you try to pick up those two stitches for the ring finger. I must have tried about five or six times before I got it, and then I ended up with gaps. The gappiness must be a common problem, because the patterns all tell you to use the tail of the yarn you attach to start the finger to close it up. So when I cast on the extra stitches for the ring finger (between the ring and middle fingers), I took a needle and ran a bit of waste yarn through the cast on stitches before I worked them. Voila, it was a breeze to pick up those stitches for the middle finger. Better yet - No gap at all.

Two last pictures before I call it a night, and close the last bit over my now long gone trip to Vienna:
The main hall in the building I worked in which again was decked out in flags, this time of all the IAEA partners,

and second the Nobel prize medallion in its case by the elevator.