These are old nylony gloves that I wear under my mittens in the winter. I want to knit a pair or three of gloves that fit like these ones do but that are made with wool.

These used to be a bit tighter but have stretched over the years. I want the new gloves to fit pretty tightly, like these ones used to.

I’m using some of the laceweight yarn that I dyed with St John’s Wort last summer. My knitting gauge comes out to be about 10.5 stitches per inch and I am aiming for a glove that is about 7.5” around, so I cast on 80 stitches for the ribbing and continued with those 80 for the body of the glove.

The new glove might be a bit wider than my old friend but I think that the thumb gusset is big and long enough. I’m using a pattern from an excellent article in an old Interweave Knits magazine (“Progressive Gloves” by Pam Allen, pp. 92, Winter 2003); I’ve got an asymmetric thumb going.

I hit my stride with the gauge while I was knitting the middle finger, so it and the ring finger are much tighter than the index finger. That’s okay; this is a test glove.

You have to try your glove on a lot as you work, to be sure that things are fitting properly. All those blue yarns, by the way, are markers of each finger’s first round. I usually use plastic pins but they are too heavy for this yarn.

That was easy, no? Because I knitted these gloves one after the other, I figured that the second one would be smaller, but this time I knitted more loosely and it’s bigger. They both still fit fine. I’ll do my next pair in tandem.

The cuff is long, so I can fold it under.

And if it’s really cold, I can unfold it and tuck it into my coat sleeve to keep that Minnesota wind out.