When we were children my best friend Prima had a lovely little book with the story of the country mouse and the city mouse. Knitting on the train up from my home in New York city to Prima’s cozy place in a small town in Vermont, I couldn’t help but be reminded of that story. She’s turned into quite the country mouse, while I’m happy in the city. But whether you’re walking past trees or street lights, everyone needs gloves in the autumn.

This pattern includes instructions for two variations of a glove. Both begin with a garter stitch band in a contrasting yarn color, which closes with a button. Both continue in the main color for the hand and the thumb gusset. But where the Country Mouse glove continues into fingers in the main color, the City Mouse glove is bound off with a few rows of garter stitch in the contrast color, echoing the wrist band.

The City Mouse glove is a fairly straightforward project, suitable for a beginner who has mastered that stockinette scarf and is ready for something with a bit of shaping or as television knitting for a more advanced knitter. The Country Mouse version is a bit more complicated: It involves picking up stitches and a kitchener bind off and is better suited to intermediate knitters.

Yardage:
City mouse gloves: 100,120,130,150,170 yards main color, 100,120,130,150,170 yards contrast color
Country mouse gloves: 180,210,240,270,300 yards main color, 100,120,130,150,170 yards contrast color

There are 2 pdfs available: A 12 page color version with images of the finished gloves and some steps along the way, formatted to be easy to read on a computer; and a printer friendly 5 page black and white version with no images (1 page description and general info, 2 pages of pattern for the City Mouse Gloves, and 2 additional pages of pattern for the Country Mouse Gloves).