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Jul. 11th, 2008 07:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pebblerockerI have a pair of fingerless gloves and they're fantastic for keeping my hands warm, but I lent them to the boy to wear on the bus and my fingers have been freezing. Another pair would be lovely. How to achieve this goal? I can knit, just barely; I made bootees for my niece when she was born, with much running to mummy for help with mysteriously expanding ribbing and reminders on how to k2tog, and gloves should be only ten times more complicated, so I've been looking for patterns.
First I investigated a pattern for gaming gloves I'd seen in Cerise magazine a while ago. They look pretty simple, but they're not exactly gloves and they're crocheted, not knitted. Apparently crochet is easy to learn; I know how to make a chain, I have books with instructions, and there's a crochet hook kicking around in a drawer somewhere. This is definitely worth a try.
Then I searched the vast interwebs for other patterns and found that a huge proportion of what are labelled as patterns for fingerless gloves are something completely different, the same as the ones from Cerise: more like fingerless mittens than gloves, in some cases nothing more than a tube like a small legwarmer with a slit for the thumb. Easy to knit, but really not what I'm after and most misleadingly named.
What I really want to make is these lovely gloves. The pattern looks a bit beyond my current knitting capabilities though, with double-pointed needles and lots of fiddliness... but I WANT some.
First I investigated a pattern for gaming gloves I'd seen in Cerise magazine a while ago. They look pretty simple, but they're not exactly gloves and they're crocheted, not knitted. Apparently crochet is easy to learn; I know how to make a chain, I have books with instructions, and there's a crochet hook kicking around in a drawer somewhere. This is definitely worth a try.
Then I searched the vast interwebs for other patterns and found that a huge proportion of what are labelled as patterns for fingerless gloves are something completely different, the same as the ones from Cerise: more like fingerless mittens than gloves, in some cases nothing more than a tube like a small legwarmer with a slit for the thumb. Easy to knit, but really not what I'm after and most misleadingly named.
What I really want to make is these lovely gloves. The pattern looks a bit beyond my current knitting capabilities though, with double-pointed needles and lots of fiddliness... but I WANT some.
