08/16/2024: Pattern update is now available with improved chart for completing the circle, small revisions to eliminate redundancies. ENJOY!

Sometimes, when I pick up yarn and needles, the mindful part of my brain churns round and round, thinking of ways to work with a concept and design which might result in something both original and artful. Sometimes the yarn speaks to me. Other times, a designer’s work is the impetus. This glove design is a response to the colors and texture of a Schoeppel yarn and the work of Knitting and So On.

Don’t fear the design’s construction. Once the short rows are worked the rest is essentially the same as any other knit glove. Look deep into your stash for a colorful, patterned yarn to guide your way. Listen to your yarn choice and complement it with other color(s). A bit more guidance is provided than is normally found for knitting a pair of gloves. I’m hoping this will help the more cautious to take the risk. And… it’s perfectly OK to be spinning in circles.

Techniques and Features:
Instructions are written using 2 circular needles. The cuff and upper hand are created from a flat circle whose diameter, when folded in half, approximates the measurement of glove size to be knit. The right and left gloves are worked identically. Once the thumb gusset is worked, live stitches from the circle’s edge are grafted with a contrasting decorative I-cord seam. Following the upper circle’s I-cord edge bind off, short rows even out the mid hand section. Short row instructions are written as w&t’s allowing knitters to substitute preferred short row methods. A schematic provides a map and sequence of how the stitches are employed to build the glove. The small and medium sizes are knit with fingering weight yarn. The large size is knit with sport weight yarn and mostly follows the instructions of the medium size glove.

Level of difficulty: Intermediate; experience working short rows recommended

Materials: Fingering weight yarn (spot weight/large). MC self-patterning, self-striping, multi or color changing. CC solid, semi- solid with contrast to MC.

Yarn Suggestions: Felici Fingering Weight 218 yds/199m per 50g; Fiber Seed Sprout Sock 510 yds/465m per 136g; String Theory Colorworks Entanglement Self-striping 460.0 yds/420.6m per 100g; Zauberball Crazy 459 yds/420m per 100g. Zauberball® Stärke 6 Sport Weight 437 yards/400 meters per 150g.
Fingering Weight Yardage small (medium): MC 218 (260) yds / 200 (238) m; CC 10 yds / 9.1 m ; Sport Weight Yardage large: MC CC 10 yds / 9.1 m

Notions: (small and medium gloves) 2 circular needles US1/2.25mm US 1.5/2.5mm for large gloveeedle size needed to achieve gauge), 24”/70cm in length or other needle(s) suitable for working in the round; optional 3rd spare needle same size; optional DP needles for finger knitting; a few removable and 3-4 regular stitch markers; blunt tipped needle; waste yarn; tape measure.

A big thank you goes out to my test knitters: niemiecp, nicolasina, jkivlin,LaEmma,kathrows,aimeeRN, HelenMc,Moni69, Marg3016, lifen, Gwenoveva, Darite.