This pattern (along with most of my earlier work) was retired in the summer of 2022. However, it may be available for a few days once or twice a year. Read on for details!

In the summer of 2022, I realized that maintaining a back catalog of hundreds of patterns was kind of overwhelming. I couldn’t do it and still release new things. So I took my old patterns down so I could keep doing new work.

Since then, a handful of my favorites have come back, and lovely new things have come out. But the vast majority of the old patterns are retired and will no longer be generally available.

However, enough folks have asked about some old favorites that I’m planning to make many of the retired patterns available for a few days once or twice a year (most likely in late spring and then again in the fall around Thanksgiving).

• If you see the buy buttons on this page, you’ve caught it on one of the days it’s available, and you’re welcome to grab it!
• If you don’t see the buy buttons on this page, then it’s not currently available.
• If you want to hear when the retired patterns will be available, subscribe to the mailing list or patreon, or keep an eye on my instagram.

That “a lady is known by her gloves and her boots” has passed into a proverb, so any carelessness or untidiness in these important details will place her “beyond the pale.” Whether she has a maid or is her own tirewoman, no neglect in the care of the small belongings of dress is tolerated.

Correct Social Usage: A Course of Instruction in Good Form, Style and Deportment
The New York Society of Self-Culture, 1907

I’m not going to judge your boots (given the state of my own, I have no room to talk). But I do think there’s something to be said for a charming pair of gloves.

These will do quite nicely. The richly textured cuff looks much harder than it is, and the plain stockinette hand is both quick to work and supremely comfortable. You’ll have a pair (or maybe several) finished in no time.