Top-down lace-up mittens by Keltic Banshee

Top-down lace-up mittens

Knitting
October 2010
Fingering (14 wpi) ?
27 stitches and 40 rows = 4 inches
in Stocking stitch in the round
US 1½ - 2.5 mm
250 - 300 yards (229 - 274 m)
Small, Medium, Large
English
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When I first saw Ysolda Teague’s lace-up opera gloves, I loved them. They are quirky and original and all those things I love. However, they were missing something: fingers! Much as I love gloves, I find fingerless gloves never sit where they have to in my hands. So I decided to knit an alternative version, with half-fingers.
Of course this meant knitting them top-down, since I can no longer bring myself to knit fingers at the end of knitting a glove. So I had a look at the pictures of a lot of versions of Ysolda’s gloves, and figured out a way to knit them the other way around!
The gloves on the photographs are knitted with yarns by Handarbeitskram (http://www.handarbeitskram.com). These colourways were part of the True Blood Sock Club that ran from July to September 2010.
Pattern provides three sizes: Small, Medium, Large.