Kid gloves

Or rather, gloves for kids. My five-year-old has been pestering me for “gloves with fingers” all winter. I have been putting him off, for various reasons. Firstly, he has perfectly good warm handknit mittens, which he can put on easily by himself. Secondly, I have other stuff I need/want to knit. There were Christmas presents and design samples and unfinished WIPs which all pushed gloves down the list. Thirdly, and probably the biggest reason, I have only ever knitted one pair of gloves before. Mittens, yes. Mitts, loads. Gloves with actual fingers, once, and oh boy were they fiddly! All those little tubes to make the fingers, the finished fingers getting in the way, the yet-to-be-worked stitches on holders getting in the way, and oh so many ends to weave in after finishing all those digits!
Finally I caved. Two afternoons, two gloves done!

The pattern is a free one from Ravelry, Gloves for Kids by Lise-Anne Michel. There’s just the one size, to fit a 4-7 year old, which was exactly what I needed. The yarn is two colourways of Wollmeise Pure hold together, Jewitta über Berlin and Admiral in der Wolke. They seem to be just what he was looking for, because he’s barely taken them off since they came off the needles!

Speaking of stuff on the needles, as well as a sample shawl using my handspun, I have another not-my-design pattern in progress at the moment too. I remembered this week I had promised my sister I would make sleeveless tops for each of my two nephews, and if I don’t make them soon they won’t need pullovers, they’ll need swimwear! This is a pattern called Kidding Around from Cygnet yarns which I found in a back issue of Simply Knitting magazine.