Geometric Gloves

The world's largest caterpillar stopped by to say hello while I was photographing the second glove I'm doing for the booklet.


These gloves have a sore thumb gusset and tapered fingertips and the fingers are worked in the opposite direction as the gloves with the colorwork cuffs from a few days ago. This is a woman's medium and you'll need 2 (50 g) skeins of black in Knitpicks Palette and small amounts of white and 6 other contrast colors.



This is the men's medium version of the same glove knit in Elann's Devon sport weight wool which is nice and soft and stretchy but a bit finer than most sport weight yarns. To knit the men's glove you need one skein mineral green and two skein of Cape Cod blue. Unfortunately neither of these colors is currently available at Elann but there are some other fun Devon colors.



The colorwork cuff gloves with the peasant thumb require 2 (50 g) skeins of Knitpicks' Palette in the main color and small amounts of 9 other colors for the cuff for both the small and large woman's sizes.

For those who plan to knit these gloves on dpns (instructions will also be given for 2 circs), I highly recommend you buy some glove needles from 4" to 6" long. I am amazed at how much faster I can knit glove fingers when using shorter needles. There will be more sources in the booklet but Spin Blessing and Patternworks have the largest selections of glove needles in various materials. My glove needles of choice are the extremely inexpensive Inox/Prym dpns from Spin Blessing - not too slick and not too sticky and unbreakable so far. If you can, get glove needles in all sizes from 2.5mm to 3.5 mm as you'll find you need the variations. Many knitters use a different size dpn for the fingers because of tension differences in knitting small tubes.

I still want to knit another version of each glove but I hope to have the glove booklet for sale by this weekend.