Showing posts with label gloves. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gloves. Show all posts
Red Sox Socks
Here's another pair of colorblock gloves in progress - I just bought a purple jacket so I hope they match.
I have been pouting because we have been denied the baseball game package through our satellite tv provider. We had it last year and enjoyed it greatly. Baseball is such a perfect accompaniment for knitting and I already can tell that I'm getting less knitting done with fewer games to watch. Oh well - at least I get to see Dice-K pitch for the first time at Fenway tonight on ESPN2. Go Boston!
Favorite Online Glove Patterns
I've posted a few of these before but here is the complete list of my favorite online glove patterns:
Cigar Gloves - This thick pair of men’s gloves knit with two circular needles has two open fingers for cigar smoking.
Floral Fair Isle Gloves - This attractive pair of gloves from Interweave Knits is knit with many colors of fingering weight Shetland wool.
Gansey Gloves - These incredibly beautiful gloves are perfect for knitters who love texture. Must. Make. These. Gloves.
Gloves in Karisma - A pretty Drops design using I think DK weight yarn for gloves with 2 cables and a seed stitch border.
Guatemalan Gloves Free Knitting Pattern - This gorgeous pair of 14 color gloves comes in five sizes depending on what weight yarn you use.
House Gloves - This simple pattern with striped fingers uses worsted weight yarn. The pattern includes instructions for using dpns, 2 circs, and the Magic Loop method to knit gloves.
I-Cord Gloves - This serial pattern from Nonaknits features I-cord fingers, top-down construction and Joyce William's fun technique for in between the fingers.
Ken Gloves - This Berroco pattern is sized for men and knit with a thick yarn.
Sanquhar Gloves - These traditional Scottish Gloves using lace weight yarn are considered the pinnacle of glove making. This incredible pattern is from a Japanese knitting web site and is error-free.
Sideways Gloves - If you can't decide whether to knit your gloves cuff-up or top-down, try making them sideways.
Starlight Evening Gloves - These long gloves use an eyelet pattern and a decorative seam.
Opera Glove - This pattern for elbow length pair of gloves has good photos on how to pick up stitches from a peasant thumb.
Wedding Day Lace Gloves - This beautiful lacy pair of long gloves is perfect for a bride.
Women's Lace Gloves - Nifty vintage pattern for gloves. I made these a long time ago (I have the vintage pattern booklet) and they turned out beautifully.
And if you prefer to design your own gloves:
Hand Knit Glove Pattern Generator - Simply plug in your hand measurements at this web site and you’ll get a pattern written for your size.
Lynn’s Gloves - This valuable web site is a template that shows you how to design your own knitted gloves similar to using Elizabeth Zimmermann's Percentage System for sweaters.
Cigar Gloves - This thick pair of men’s gloves knit with two circular needles has two open fingers for cigar smoking.
Floral Fair Isle Gloves - This attractive pair of gloves from Interweave Knits is knit with many colors of fingering weight Shetland wool.
Gansey Gloves - These incredibly beautiful gloves are perfect for knitters who love texture. Must. Make. These. Gloves.
Gloves in Karisma - A pretty Drops design using I think DK weight yarn for gloves with 2 cables and a seed stitch border.
Guatemalan Gloves Free Knitting Pattern - This gorgeous pair of 14 color gloves comes in five sizes depending on what weight yarn you use.
House Gloves - This simple pattern with striped fingers uses worsted weight yarn. The pattern includes instructions for using dpns, 2 circs, and the Magic Loop method to knit gloves.
I-Cord Gloves - This serial pattern from Nonaknits features I-cord fingers, top-down construction and Joyce William's fun technique for in between the fingers.
Ken Gloves - This Berroco pattern is sized for men and knit with a thick yarn.
Sanquhar Gloves - These traditional Scottish Gloves using lace weight yarn are considered the pinnacle of glove making. This incredible pattern is from a Japanese knitting web site and is error-free.
Sideways Gloves - If you can't decide whether to knit your gloves cuff-up or top-down, try making them sideways.
Starlight Evening Gloves - These long gloves use an eyelet pattern and a decorative seam.
Opera Glove - This pattern for elbow length pair of gloves has good photos on how to pick up stitches from a peasant thumb.
Wedding Day Lace Gloves - This beautiful lacy pair of long gloves is perfect for a bride.
Women's Lace Gloves - Nifty vintage pattern for gloves. I made these a long time ago (I have the vintage pattern booklet) and they turned out beautifully.
And if you prefer to design your own gloves:
Hand Knit Glove Pattern Generator - Simply plug in your hand measurements at this web site and you’ll get a pattern written for your size.
Lynn’s Gloves - This valuable web site is a template that shows you how to design your own knitted gloves similar to using Elizabeth Zimmermann's Percentage System for sweaters.
My Favorite Glove Knitting Tip
Here's one of my favorite glove knitting tips. If you diagram the finger stitches, you can greatly speed up your knitting. Once you understand the fingertip shaping you no longer have to read through the long pattern each time you get to a new finger. Instead just consult your nifty diagram.
This is the diagram for the peasant gloves I'm working on. Each circle represents a finger (starting with the thumb slightly below on the left going all the way to the little finger on the far right) and the number inside the circle represents the total number of stitches used for each finger.
The numbers above and below the circles in blue are the stitches that you put on dpns after being held on waste yarn and the numbers in red are the stitches you either cast on or pick up from the previous finger to get your total stitch count.
I've been thinking ahead to future knitting once I finish the glove booklet. This week I made 3 purchases that I'm greatly anticipating. First, I purchased some of Anne's gorgeous handspun yarn at her new shop, Wooly Wonka Fibers. I bought the alpaca, wool, and silk yarn from her scarf knitting kit and I plan to use it for more hiking socks for DH.
Secondly I purchased Terri's new self-published book Selbuvotter on one of my favorite subjects - Nordic gloves and mittens. I just love the cover design of the book. If you pre-purchase the book in March you get free shipping.
Finally, I purchased some terrific colorwork sock patterns from Red Bird Knits. I chose the Andes, Winter Dreams, and Noel designs and I already own the Holly Berry design.
I think those projects should keep me out of trouble for a while. I also purchased more of Elann's Peruvian Highland Wool in my continuing efforts to get all the purple, blue, and green shades I can find.
This is the diagram for the peasant gloves I'm working on. Each circle represents a finger (starting with the thumb slightly below on the left going all the way to the little finger on the far right) and the number inside the circle represents the total number of stitches used for each finger.
The numbers above and below the circles in blue are the stitches that you put on dpns after being held on waste yarn and the numbers in red are the stitches you either cast on or pick up from the previous finger to get your total stitch count.
I've been thinking ahead to future knitting once I finish the glove booklet. This week I made 3 purchases that I'm greatly anticipating. First, I purchased some of Anne's gorgeous handspun yarn at her new shop, Wooly Wonka Fibers. I bought the alpaca, wool, and silk yarn from her scarf knitting kit and I plan to use it for more hiking socks for DH.
Secondly I purchased Terri's new self-published book Selbuvotter on one of my favorite subjects - Nordic gloves and mittens. I just love the cover design of the book. If you pre-purchase the book in March you get free shipping.
Finally, I purchased some terrific colorwork sock patterns from Red Bird Knits. I chose the Andes, Winter Dreams, and Noel designs and I already own the Holly Berry design.
I think those projects should keep me out of trouble for a while. I also purchased more of Elann's Peruvian Highland Wool in my continuing efforts to get all the purple, blue, and green shades I can find.
Mystery Cast On
Does anyone out there know what this mystery cast on is called? Initially I thought it was the Guernsey cast on but the instructions seem different in Vogue Knitting. I traded away my Montse Stanley book which has the most cast ons but I may have to break down and buy it again.
In "Gloves from Handspun: Totally Tubular" in the Winter 1996 issue of Spin-Off Jude Daurelle says the reason some knitters get holes between the fingers of their gloves is because the backwards loop cast on is normally used to cast on stitches in the middle of the row. She suggests the cast on shown above instead.
Here are the directions: 1. Holding the yarn in back of the work, insert the left hand needle into the front of the last stitch on the right hand needle (directly down the loop). Yarn over right hand needle and draw up a new loop, but do not lift the old loop off the left hand needle. 2. Bring the point of the right hand needle down in front of the left hand needle and enter the loop (still on the left hand needle) from underneath, to the rear. Yarn over the right needle and pull a new stitch from rear to front while pulling down through the left loop. Pull the yarn slightly to tighten the tension. One new stitch is now cast on.
Any ideas???
Cigar Gloves
I plan to knit some gloves using alternative methods in my research for the glove booklet. So far I've knit one glove using two circular needles. I used the Cigar Glove pattern from Knitty (I knitted all the fingers instead of leaving three open) and used Knitpicks' Wool of the Andes to make a quick glove for DH. He wants the second one to match but I ran out of blue yarn and now he'll have to wait until I finish the glove booklet (probably around the end of February).
You can easily convert any glove knitting pattern that calls for double-pointed needles to two circular needles. You simply put half the stitches called for in the cuff, hand, or fingers on one circular needle and half on the second. Always remember to use two ends of the same circular needle to knit using this method. HERE's a good technique post that demonstrates this method. Heck you can even use one long circular needle and the magic loop method to knit glove fingers - find out how HERE. When you get to the top shaping for the fingertips it is easier to just keep all the stitches on the needle edges rather than putting the resting stitches on the circular not in use on the circular needle's cable.
Honestly I'm not sure if the dpn or 2 circ method is quicker or less fiddly for glove fingers. It really is a matter of your personal preference.
I highly recommend the Cigar Glove pattern to new glove knitters - it is simple and fast because you use worsted weight yarn. I knit this glove in a day while simultaneously surfing the net. I'm not a fan of thicker gloves for myself but DH is fond of them. As you can see from the above photo the pattern as written has quite a jump, about 1/2", between the base of the little finger and the base of the ring finger.
Herrevante, No. 13
Unfortunately this outdoor photo of the gloves turned out somewhat ghostly due to the time of day.
These are the Herrevante No. 13 from the Norwegian Rauma Selbustrikk booklet (available through Arnhild ) knitted using size 2 dpns and some of my vintage Nylamb yarn. I really love Nylamb for gloves.
If you have the booklet, there is a tiny chart error. On Handleadd alt 5, the chart on the bottom of page 13, go to the far right of the chart and count up 10 squares and color in the square. The charts are clear and well marked and you really don't need to know Norwegian to knit these items.
These are the Herrevante No. 13 from the Norwegian Rauma Selbustrikk booklet (available through Arnhild ) knitted using size 2 dpns and some of my vintage Nylamb yarn. I really love Nylamb for gloves.
If you have the booklet, there is a tiny chart error. On Handleadd alt 5, the chart on the bottom of page 13, go to the far right of the chart and count up 10 squares and color in the square. The charts are clear and well marked and you really don't need to know Norwegian to knit these items.
Gloves
I've been busy researching Sanquhar gloves. I had a few patterns that I wanted to try already and Michelle's blog entry about the Scotland exhibit at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival spurred me to get started. Mari's comments on my tag-board that she has already knit two pairs and her yarn recommendations have also inspired me.
The first pattern I will probably use is from an old Cast On. I'm sorry I don't have the date but I cut out patterns from old magazines instead of keeping the entire magazine and the date isn't listed anywhere. It is the Sanquhar Gloves by T. Dale Long, and was the 1990 Competition Winner, Honorable Mention, Unique Design Other. This pattern uses Jamieson & Smith Ltd. 2 ply Jumper Weight Shetland yarn and size 1 dpns. The gauge is 8 sts and 9 rows to 1" and each diamond on the chart uses 10 stitches. I know this is a bit thicker than traditional Sanquhar gloves and the other problem is that the tips of the fingers don't use the traditional salt and pepper design - I'll change that though. It does have the traditional salt and pepper gusset under the thumb but it doesn't have gussets between all the other fingers.
I also have THIS online pattern from a Japanese web site that uses lace weight yarn and size 000 needles. I like this pattern more and will have to find some lace weight yarn to use with it. Check out the photo of the unique GUSSET between the fingers.
The Dumfries and Galloway Museum has THIS page of interesting info about the Sanquhar pattern.
I also ordered the Sanquhar-style gloves pattern from the NeedleArts Book Shop and have contacted the Scottish Women's Rural Institutes about ordering all their Sanquhar glove patterns. It wasn't the easiest experience finding plain old black and white wool yarn in fingering and lace weight (Don't get me started!) but after looking at about 100 different online stores I ordered some Jamieson & Smith's 2 ply laceweight and J&S 2 ply jumper weight from Four Seasons Knitting. I also finally purchased the pattern for Lucy Neatby's Paradoxical Mittens.
Speaking of gloves, here are the Landra's gloves from Nancy Bush's Folk Knitting in Estonia done in Stahl baby merino. And the first glove I ever made out of Nylamb many moons ago. I only made one and can't bear to throw it out for some reason. I keep thinking I'll make another one but I'd probably make it at a much tighter gauge anyway.
The first pattern I will probably use is from an old Cast On. I'm sorry I don't have the date but I cut out patterns from old magazines instead of keeping the entire magazine and the date isn't listed anywhere. It is the Sanquhar Gloves by T. Dale Long, and was the 1990 Competition Winner, Honorable Mention, Unique Design Other. This pattern uses Jamieson & Smith Ltd. 2 ply Jumper Weight Shetland yarn and size 1 dpns. The gauge is 8 sts and 9 rows to 1" and each diamond on the chart uses 10 stitches. I know this is a bit thicker than traditional Sanquhar gloves and the other problem is that the tips of the fingers don't use the traditional salt and pepper design - I'll change that though. It does have the traditional salt and pepper gusset under the thumb but it doesn't have gussets between all the other fingers.
I also have THIS online pattern from a Japanese web site that uses lace weight yarn and size 000 needles. I like this pattern more and will have to find some lace weight yarn to use with it. Check out the photo of the unique GUSSET between the fingers.
The Dumfries and Galloway Museum has THIS page of interesting info about the Sanquhar pattern.
I also ordered the Sanquhar-style gloves pattern from the NeedleArts Book Shop and have contacted the Scottish Women's Rural Institutes about ordering all their Sanquhar glove patterns. It wasn't the easiest experience finding plain old black and white wool yarn in fingering and lace weight (Don't get me started!) but after looking at about 100 different online stores I ordered some Jamieson & Smith's 2 ply laceweight and J&S 2 ply jumper weight from Four Seasons Knitting. I also finally purchased the pattern for Lucy Neatby's Paradoxical Mittens.
Speaking of gloves, here are the Landra's gloves from Nancy Bush's Folk Knitting in Estonia done in Stahl baby merino. And the first glove I ever made out of Nylamb many moons ago. I only made one and can't bear to throw it out for some reason. I keep thinking I'll make another one but I'd probably make it at a much tighter gauge anyway.
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