Will be knit in the round on DPNs one at a time. I’ll wet-block them on hand blockers, which is the same way I would wash them. I did not divide the yarn, I’ll just weigh the ball to see if I have enough for both gloves.

I swatched with #0 Blackthorn DPNs, English style, using the in-the round swatching method of coninuous knitting (though in hindsight it probably wouldn’t have mattered since there’s a fair amount of purling in the glove too). I cast on 40 stitches and knitted 50 rows for the swatch, with a lifeline at row 5 and 45 and a running thread along stitch 5 and 35. The gauge after blocking was 31sts x 44 rows (aiming for 30sts x 40 rows) the stitches were close enough and the gloves are small enough that 31sts seemed like a good enough gauge. The rows aren’t quite as important in gloves (I hope).

Post-swatching, pre-knitting weight: 91 grams

Cast on using Jeny’s Surprisingly Stretchy Cast On and will bind off with Jeny’s BO as well. I did a quick swatch with 2 repeats of the edging chart to make sure the CO and BO wouldn’t look like crap and they looked just fine. The edges curled under slightly, but I don’t mind that as much as curling out and the CO and BO were nice and stretchy! I have a love/hate relationship with this cast on. It’s a real pain in the ass to do for some reason and it takes me forever, but it’s better than fighting with my too-tight cast ons for rest of the gloves’ existence. Jeny’s CO IS stretchy.

If I have enough yarn I would really like to convert these into fingered gloves. I’m going to put a lifeline in the last row before the purl edge starts in case it turns out I can rip back and add fingers. I’m sure I’ll need to beg for assistance if this becomes a possibility since I’ve never done fingers before, but I’m sure I can find some nice knitters to take pity on me :)

Knitting with this yarn is turning my fingers blue, so I’m sure it will bleed when I first soak it. I’ll want to watch for that in future swatches with Merino Sock especially if I’m trying a multi-colored pattern.
Looking at the “How to deal with excess dye” thread in the Indigodragonfly forum there are some suggestions for how to deal with this. Since it’s not multi-color and I’m not too bothered by having blue hands I don’t think it’s necessary to deal with yarn before I’ve finished knitting with it, though in future cases I may want to. SOAK may take care of it, I’ll wash it twice to make sure the water runs clear. If not, try setting the dye by soaking in 1/2 cup white vinegar and water for 20 min then rinsing and washing in SOAK. If I need to do that I want to try it out on a swatch first (if I still have it) just in case chemistry decides to spite me and ruin my gloves…science has been known to be a fickle bitch when I’m in the room.

At first it was bothering me, but now I’m really enjoying how the lighter bits are spiraling around the glove! It reminds me of the “whoosing” noise the TARDIS makes.

At round 39, the last pattern row before starting the edge of the fingerless gloves, I still have 71 grams left! That only used 20 grams! I totally have enough left to make fingers for my gloves! Now I just need to figure out how…

Using the finger instructions from Knotty Gloves to make the fingers - the stitch count is just 2 sts less than for Gallifrey, so I just had to decrease by 2 sts on the middle finger to compensate. It’s been going pretty well!

Note to self: do not set this project down for more than a few days! It’s really easy to lose track of where I am in the chart and with such tiny stitches it’s really hard to “read” the knitting to see where I was in the previous row.

Another note to self: I’ve already ignored the above note multiple times, and keep screwing up the first couple rows after I pick them up again and having to tink back. I really should listen to myself.

For the thumb gussets I’m not sure how I started out, but later I started using M1L for the first increase and M1R for the second increase…though my track record for remembering which is which is not great, so who knows what I’m actually doing…

After the thumb gussets are done and I reach row 39 again, I repeated row 0 instead of continuing with the edge instructions. I then followed with finger instructions from Knotty.

For thumb - round 1: ssk for gap; round 2: k2, k2tog, then continue in stockinette. About half an inch in, ssk, k1, k2tog. About an inch in ssk, k1, k2tog. About an inch and a half in ssk, k1, k2tog.

For the second glove I tried my best to follow the same directions, but at some point I got screwed up. Somehow I ended up with too many thumb stitches too early in the gusset increases, so for the second half of the gusset I had to increase less frequently. I also have no idea what type of increases I was using…

The gloves were a bit too tight pre-blocking, but post-blocking they fit great! I can’t tell the difference between the thumbs, so that all worked out. One does look slightly brighter than the other though, and I don’t know what to make of that…it’s not too noticeable though.

The only thing I think I would change about the pattern is perhaps doing a couple rows of stockinette before dividing for the fingers. The sudden transition from the purled hand to stockinette fingers looks a little weird, especially on the pinky finger.