It was definitely cold enough for gloves when we went out on Saturday but rooting through the hats/gloves/scarves box (aka Little Man's dressing up box) and could not find one pair of gloves that matched AND fitted him so he ended up with a pair of fluffy mittens which spent most of the day in his pockets not on his hands which meant he spent most of the day with cold hands!
'I want some like yours mummy' he said pointing to my wrist warmers, 'but not sparkly!'
So I let him pick some yarn. After steering him away from the lime green acrylic - there are some places I just won't go! - he chose a nice blue-grey with coloured flecks. We took the yarn home and I set to, ploughing through my patterns to find what he wanted. Nothing. Had a look on Ravelry for free downloads and couldn't find anything there either. So I bit the bullet, grabbed a pen and some paper and made my own pattern.
He wanted a longer cuff than normal (kids gloves are always too short at the wrist don't you think?), he wanted a thumb but he didn't want fingers. And he want the top left open, 'So I can eat sweeties without getting fluffy bits in my mouth!' I wanted to knit them in the round using double pointed needles so there was no sewing up afterwards...
I used a basic mitten pattern as a starting point for number of stitches to cast on and also for shaping the thumb gusset but after that I kind of made it up as I went along (writing it down so the other glove would match of course!)
I can't begin to tell you how satisfying it was once they were finished (in one day too!) and Little Man put them on, then didn't want to take them off! He proudly showed them off to his teachers when he went back to school yesterday.
And now I am proudly showing them off to you!
You should be proud of yourself. It's really hard making up a pattern! Any chance of you selling them. ;)
ReplyDeleteThe pattern? or the gloves? ;-)
DeleteThe gloves. I can't do kids gloves. Too fiddly for my fat fingers!
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