Matching gloves for my Kim fair isle beret.

Gauge
7.5 sts per inch in stockinette in the round
9.5 rows

Gauge on 2.75mm before washing:
7 sts per inch
11 rows per inch

Gauge after washing:
14.5 sts per 2 inches
10 rows per inch

I’ll go with 2.75mm needles as the difference in width will be no more than max 3/8 inch, the length of the patterned part of the glove should be the same.

Pattern
chart 1, 2, 3, 2, 4

Divided for fingers when I reached chart 4, which means that the fair isle will extend a little into the fingers.

9/8-15
So far the size and shaping works really well :)

Fingers
Finished the first finger. Too wide at the tip. My fingers taper towards the tips, and there’s more than 1 cm difference in circumference between the base of the fingers and the tips.

After some trial and error I found that what worked best is to decrease one stitch each side of the finger twice. First time just after the first knuckle, the second approximately at the second.

When you try on the glove you’ll notice the knitting will start to gape before these two spots, but if you decrease too soon the fingers will be too snug.

Shape the top of the fingers when you’ve reached the tip.

1st finger: 28 rows before shaping the top.
2nd finger: 33 rows
3rd finger: 29 rows
4th finger: 20 rows

Thumb
The thumb is knitted as written. 22 rows before shaping.

I got this great tip in the techniques forum for the thumb. In Norwegian knitting the most common way of dealing with thumbs is to knit the stitches for the thumb using scrap yarn, and then pick up the stitches later.

I’ve not been very fond it this technique as it leaves long floats on the back of the work, and they tend to get tugged at when putting the gloves on. But it turns out there’s an easy way to work around this problem.

Once you’ve knitted the thumb stitches with the scrap yarn you move them back onto the left needle, and knit them again using your ordinary yarn(s). Problem solved!

21/8-15
Done! Pictures to come once the gloves have been blocked :) wonderful, for the first time I have perfectly fitting winter gloves. Store bought gloves have too long fingers.