I have knitted some gloves!
I used an pattern from the same knitting booklet I use for my hand-knitted socks; the Patons Knitting Book C11, a little pamphlet dating from the early 60’s. The only change I made was to knit each glove entirely in the round, including the thumb and each of the fingers so there are no seams to stitch up in the end. Bonus!
For my gloves, I used a 100% Australian Merino wool, which is beautifully soft and snuggly against the skin. Australia has the finest merino wool in the world, producing nearly 80% of the world’s fine apparel wool (reference) This is the Morris & Sons Empire Superwash 4ply, available here. It is the same wool I have used for most of my hand-knitted socks.
My husband took these photos, because there is an inherent difficulty with photographing your own hands, even when operating a delayed response remote control! Some posing experiments were conducted to determine how to most effectively show off the new gloves. It was kinda hilarious. I hope some of these outtakes amuse 🙂
Details:
Gloves; pattern from the Patons Knitting Book C11, and using Morris Empire Superwash 4ply in col Beluga (430)
The gloves are nice. I love to knit, but only sweaters. Gloves are too much like knitting socks. 🙂
You certainly amused me. I love how you've chosen to reveal your newest gloves 😀 All the photos are fantastic.
Great gloves and a fun way to show them off.
I love the dress too 🙂
Wonderful!!!
Perfect artifakts, both, gloves and dress!!!
Gread photos!!!
Brilliant performance!!!
Outtakes hilarious. So funny. Gloves are ace, love anything made in the round. Your dress looks amazing. That fabric is just beautiful.
Haha, I love the photos.
Of course, the gloves are nice, too 😉
Ha,ha,ha Love these pictures! Great gloves!
They do indeed amuse. I always chicken out of gloves with fingers and go for the fingerless kind. Those look like they will last for ages. Jo x
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They're great and I love the pics!
Funny!! and what nice gloves.
I love your gloves! And the 60's style photos 🙂
I love your gloves! And the 60's style photos 🙂
Okay, the pose experiments are completely cracking me up.
SO impressive! Both the gloves and the hand poses (there are no outtakes there….) 😀
Very nice gloves and grey is one of my favourite colours.
Love your outtakes! Those look like very nice gloves as well.
Super duper way to show them off! So clever.
Impressive!
Great photos, they made me chuckle. The star attraction for me though really was the dress. May we see more?
love the dress, love the gloves, love the poses!
These are beautiful gloves and they pop against such a great backdrop.
I think your photographer did a top job.
I am so in awe of those gloves! They are beautiful. And I adore linen shirts. I hate changing clothes multiple times during the day. I'm getting really lazy these days. So well done for choosing a dress and sticking to it.
The photos are indeed wonderful, as are the gloves! Yum, merino wool. 🙂
Oh my hand knitted gloves, you amaze me!
cool! I'm envisioning ten times knitting little tubes on dpn's…. more patience than I have. Also didn't know Aussie merino was the loveliest. I love merino and will have to file that away in case any travel opportunities to your great country materialize. Love your funny poses …!!
I looove these gloves. Does Paton's sell their vintage patterns anywhere? I'd love to see how they wrote it up. I've designed some knitted gloves myself, but wasn't super happy with the finger tips shaping.
Lovely Photos.. And The Dress Is gorgeous!!!
I really love the stitches you used here pose experiments are nice..