I live in Shetland and have had the chance to try out this new brand of Shetland wool from our islands which I was very tempted to purchase as soon as I saw the lovely colours! I find gloves a nice and easy accessory to knit after initially struggling to knit them. The fingers can be tricky if you are inexperienced and with this pattern you can choose to make the fingers whatever length suits the wearer, so fingerless is an option.

Description
The gloves start at the cuff and knitting and purling in-the-round using double pointed needles. If you like circular needles and know how to ‘magic loop’ knit, it is possible to knit much of the glove with a circular needle though the fingers do require the 20 or 15 cm double pointed needles using three needles.
The body of the gloves is knitted with two colours in most rows and the Fair Isle is charted on two charts (back of hand and palm). The cuff is generous as I like to have no gaps for cold or wet to get in during the winter days!

Required technical skills

• Knitting in the round with 2 colours per row
• Reading colourwork chart
• Knit and purl
• Picking up stitches for the thumb - a picture shown to help
• Increasing and decreasing
• Weaving in the ends

Needles
I use 2.75mm (UK 12, USA 2) 20cm long double pointed needles throughout. See note on gauge and sizing.

Yarn
A new Shetland 100% wool called Aister ‘oo’. The pattern uses 4 colours though they can be knitted with 2 or 3 colours - it is up to the knitter. I used 40 g of MC and much less of each of other colours.

There is no yardage on the wool band but have been told it is approximately 142m per 50g. The wool is a thicker 4ply.

Happy Knitting!