If you have followed my designs you might have noticed that I have a close-by park that I am very fond of. It’s a beautiful park where I take frequent walks for finding energy, inspiration, I admire the beauty of the trees and the leaves…. Depending on the time of the day, or year, there are many or few people. Sometimes there are tourists, especially from our neighbouring and European countries. Very seldom we have Asian visitors. So, when suddenly a small group of Japanese tourists was in front of me they were not hard to detect! Amongst them was a Japanese girl wearing the most beautiful creamy white cardigan, with lots of lace portioned out in splendid harmony…. In ten seconds I tried to memorize the stitch-patterns. One day I will try to work my memory into a cardigan. For now I just worked one of the patterns into a pair of gloves…..

Construction
The gloves are worked in the round, starting from the cuff. The thumb gusset is integrated in the knitting.

Design The double leaf-pattern is facing the front of the gloves. The ribbed cuff continues on the back side of the glove. The palm of the hand is worked in stockinette sts.
The gloves are elegantly long… but they could of course be worked to any length.

Materials
Yarn: you will need approximately 300m/327yards of fingering weight yarn to work the pair of gloves. I used a kid-mohair (Hjelholsts Mohair 7/2) to work my gloves.
Needles: a circular needle (if working the magic loop), or a set of dpns, size 3mm/US2.5 (or needle size to obtain gauge).
Notions: 3 removable stitch-markers, separate holder, blunt tapestry needle.

Sizes and gauge
The gloves are one-size. You could modify sizing by working at different gauges.
If worked at gauge (26 sts = 10cm/4”) the circumference of the gloves = 20cm/8”.
If you work at 27 sts = 10cm/4”, the circumference will be 19cm/7.5”. If you work at 25 sts = 10cm/4”, the circumference will be 21cm/8.25”
Length of glove, from cast-on to bind off: 38cm/15”

Knitting skills
I wouldn’t knit these gloves in front of the television…. but, when that is said, they are not difficult to work! You just need to pay some attention, but it is really worth the effort:)

The pattern
Please note that the pattern is written out round-by-round (not charted).