Black Forest Braided Fingerless Gloves





The pattern on the cuff of these gloves is adapted from Co Spinhoven's Celtic Charted Designs by Dover books. You can buy this book new for under $5 and it is a great addition to any colorwork library. I'd estimate over 90% of the charts in the book would have really long floats in stranded color knitting but it is full of inspiring designs.


I recently saw a wonderful photo gallery of crocheted colorwork on Ravelry. Up until then I didn't even know you could do colorwork like that with crochet. HERE is a link showing some of the tapestry crochet from Finland - aren't those sweaters the women are wearing just gorgeous? Photos like that might be enough to get me to learn to crochet.