‘Pomatomus’ Inspired Gauntlets
May 30th, 2007 by sadia
Amazingly these took me 3 months to make… with all the frogging and restarting…
I started these originally as the Pomatomus Socks… from Knitty.com. I then converted what them into mitts, after I found that the cuff I’d knit using KnitPicks Memories fit better and looked more elegant on my arm than on my calf. I consulted both Steph’s mermaid gloves as well as Rineke’s shorter Pomatomus mitts with modification pattern
I made the arm sections on mine about 4 repeats long, and then started the thumb increases over the length of another repeat, knitted one more pattern repeat, and then continued k1 p1 into the fingers. Additionally, my mitts were knit using the Magic Loop method, which was fairly easy to adapt the pomatomus stitches to. I also chose to do the Pomatomus repeats on both sides, even through the palm, like the Mermaid mitts.
They came out lovely, and feel wonderful.
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