Knit Buddies: Fingerless Opera Length Gloves

kitty: Think Pink
meow: oooh, arm warmers
kitty: fingerless gloves
kitty: to frog or not

Fingerless Opera Length Gloves and Glove Resources:

Knitting And Crochet - Vintage Fair Lady Gloves & Gloves with Cuff
Sweaterscapes - Opera Glove Pattern
Crystal Palace - Mikado Ribbon Fingerless Gloves
Marnie MacLean - Hooray For Me Gloves & Nearly Gloves
Kim's Sockotta - Fingerless Gloves

One of my christmas presents from Meowgirl from 2004. I had really wanted this from Lacis in San Fran.

Glove Sites

The Glove Website

Blogs that talk about amazing gloves:

Another knitting blog

A link to how to knit Sanquhar gloves

Blogs that are also doing opera length gloves:

First glove done - The amazing Fluffa

c. 1879 Knitted Net Gloves

c. 1950 White Kid Leather

Friday, December 3, 2004

Fingerless Opera Length Gloves Project

	Yarn for the Project Brand: Debbie Bliss Fiber: 80% Cotton and 20% Angora Yardage: 96meters/105 yards Needles: 6-7 Guage: 18st/4" Care: Machine Wash, Lay flat to dry Colour: 506 Olive
Purchased from Knit Noddy

posted by kitty kitty@ 17:48

Monday, December 6, 2004

Measuring for Gloves

A) Measure around the hand at the widest part
B) Measure from the tip of the middle finger to the base of the hand at wrist line
C) Use the LARGEST of these two measurements for the correct size glove
D) If you are RIGHT handed, take measurements from your RIGHT hand or reverse for Left Hand

Women's Sizes
	inches	cm	Size
x-small	6	15	7
small	6½	17	8
medium	7	18	9
large	7½	19	10
x-large	8	20	11

Men's Sizes
	inches	cm
small	7	18
medium	7½ - 8	20
large	8½ - 9	23
x-large	9½ - 10	25
xx-large	10½ - 11	30

Note: These were taken from my class notes for advanced pattern layout Nancy Rudd at OSU

Friday, December 29, 2004

There finished

Well, I finally finished them on Christmas Day. I absolutely love them. They are a little shorter than I planned but they are perfect in all other ways. After three versions I finally came up with a pattern that works and looked good on. They are warm and fuzzy and not scratch since I opted out of using wool. My fingers are free but they still have the option to hide if the cuffs are folded up.

MATERIALS

4 Skeins ; 105 yds

1 set US #5/3.75mm circular needles

Gauge 6st, 7 rows = 1 inch

DIRECTIONS

CO 42 sts using the long tail cast-on method on circulars.
Join and work in k2, p2 rib for 6inches.
At the beginning of the round, *K2, P2*three times, K1, p1 then bind off 8 stitches buttonhole
k2, p2 rib for 2 rows
K2, p2 together,K2,p2,K2,p2,K2,p2 together, K2,p2,k2,p2 together, *k2,p2 three times, k2,p1together, *K2p2 for the rest of the circle
k2, p2 rib except on decrease section where it is p1 for 2 inches
increase in each p that was decreased before
K2,P2 rib for 14 inches
BO all stitches. (I bound off with a crochet hook to increase the stretch, but it did cause them to flair at the ends.)
Weave in ends.
Do button hole stitch around the thumbholes to reinforce the holes.

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