Guardian Gloves by Rebecca Blair

Guardian Gloves

Knitting
November 2010
Fingering (14 wpi) ?
41 stitches and 44 rows = 4 inches
in stranded colorwork pattern
US 1 - 2.25 mm
300 yards (274 m)
6.25, 7, 7.75" around the hand
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This is a pair of fine-gauge, elaborate stranded colorwork gloves inspired by the bright tile ceiling in the atrium of the Guardian Building in Detroit. The knitted version is simplified substantially from its namesake, but shares its bright color scheme and its bold diamonds-inside-diamonds pattern.

Skills required are: provisional cast-on, I-cord, picking up and knitting stitches, stranded colorwork with three colors at once, working a yarn over, knitting through the back loop, decreasing with k2tog and k3tog, and embroidering with duplicate stitch.

The colors used in the sample are Jay, Sweet Potato, Safflower, Clover, and Pimento.