I knit a glove

[lindaj]

Since I spent some time on an airplane last week, I picked up my glove design project, and put some more work into it.

Last Winter, I got it into my head that I'd like to knit some gloves (mostly because tman_mcl wanted some), and after searching far and wide, I couldn't find a decent pattern. Patterns for fingerless gloves abound, but not plain old regular gloves. So, using some very inexpensive DK weight yarn, I set about designing a pattern for myself, using all of those not-quite-right patterns as inspiration.

Trying on a glove in progress is a thing to behold. Between stitch holders holding the live stitches for the fingers (3 in total -- front, back, and pinky), and the double-pointed needles for knitting the fingers in the round, it looks like something out of Frankenstein.

The first glove wasn't quite right, but it had promise. I learned things. Last night I finished a second one, and I declare it very nearly perfect.

Since the original goal was to make gloves for someone else, however, not me (though it's a good bet that I'll make some for myself as well), I now need to extrapolate from the me-sized glove into a wider range of sizes. If I actually pull that off, I should polish up the pattern, acquire a digital camera to take photos of the tricky parts, and submit it to Knitty or something.

Comments

[lindalee.livejournal.com]

I'm feeling a desire to make socks, too, but no desire to own or wear hand-knitted socks...you know? I'm definitely having the "but what would I do with them?" problem.

Once I get the base pattern down, I'm definitely interested in the idea of trying gloves with cables up the back, or lace gloves, or things of that nature.

I don't suppose you wanna be a test-knitter for me? :-)

[lindalee.livejournal.com]

Well, in fact, yes. :-)

This was actually my goal. I studied loads of gloves before embarking on this project, and discovered that many of them have issues, especially around the thumb. I tried to correct that.

[paigemom.livejournal.com]

Dang, you're a morris dancer, bluestar, hate NM, and...4 hours' drive away.

Double-dang.

(I'm the person michealds555 mentioned)

[lindalee.livejournal.com]

Why dang? Because it's not more like 20 minutes?

And yes, I was just looking at your journal, and about to say hello. :-)

[paigemom.livejournal.com]

Because everything good/fun/spiritually useful is 4 hours from here.

[paigemom.livejournal.com]

So I've been told by someone I trust :))

Two someones now, including you :)