I wanted to make fingerless gloves for my great aunts Violet and Dottie. They are a combination of rural Tennessee Irish homesteaders and ahead-of-their-time urban business women. I love them. The lace and cables give an old fashioned feminine air, and are balanced by the modern, edgy look of the seed stitch sides.

I have knit these in a variety of yarns. My preference is a worsted weight silk blend like Yarnarchy Silk, or Noro Cash Iroha (40% Silk, 30% wool, 20% Cashmere, 10% Nylon) in a solid or semi solid color, on size 7 needles. I’ve also experimented with a silk blend tweed in a heavy fingerling on size 5 using the same pattern which resulted in a lacier looking glove without as much stitch definition due to the tweed yarn.