Sparkly Fingerless Gloves

As promised back in January, I'm finally posting the pattern for the fingerless gloves I made for my Mom for Christmas. I've now made a second pair so I can confirm that the size is good and if you wanted to make them a little larger I would recommend going up a needle size or two rather then adding stitches.

Purple gloves for Mom, blue gloves for Megan

Materials:
Size 4 DPN's
1 Skein Martha Glitter Eyelash Yarn
1 Skein Sensations Lustrous Lamb - White
Tulle or yarn for embellishing 
Crystal beads for embellishing
Tapestry needle
6 inches of waste yarn

Abbrevieations:
M1 - increase one stitch by picking up yarn from the row beneath.

Gauge:
22 stitches x 28 rows = 4" x 4"

Instructions:
Cast on 36 stitches with eyelash and white yarn held together using the alternate cable cast-on.
Join in the round and work two rows of K1, P1 rib.
Drop the eyelash yarn.
[K10, K2tog] repeat to the end (33 stitches)
Knit 15 more rows

Increase for thumb:
Row 1: K16, M1, K1, M1, K16 (35 stitches)
Row 2 and all even rows: Knit
Row 3: K16, M1, K3, M1, K16 (37 stitches)
Row 5: K16, M1, K5, M1, K16 (39 stitches)
Row 7: K16, M1, K7, M1, K16 (41 stitches)
Row 9: K16, M1, K9, M1, K16 (43 stitches)
Row 11: K16, M1, K11, M1, K16 (45 stitches)
Row 12: Knit
Row 13: K17, place 11 stitches on waste yarn, K17 (34 stitches)
Knit 10 more rows
Pick up eyelash yarn and work 2 rows of K1, P1 rib
Bind off and weave in ends.

Pick up 11 thumb stitches from waste yarn.
Pick up 3 more stitches at the inside of the glove (14 stitches)
Knit 4 rows
Pick up eyelash yarn and work 2 rows of K1, P1 rib
Bind off and weave in ends.

Embellish as desired.

I don't have a specific way I like to create the flower for the side. I found purple tulle that matched the color of the eyelash yarn so I used that to create the flowers for Mom's gloves, but I couldn't find blue tulle for Megan's gloves. The blue flowers are a modified version of the flower I've made before from my one skein wonders book. These gloves are so cute that whatever you add will look fabulous I'm sure!

More Christmas Gifty Goodness

A few weeks before Christmas my Mom found a fabulous new (to us) store called Charming Charlie. If you have never heard of it, look up a store near you and check it out. It's an accessory store full of tons of bling and fabulous things that sparkle and glitter with feathers and charm, and the best part, it's all arranged by color. I'm not much of a shopper, but this store is such a sensory overload I could spend hours looking at all the jewelry, bags, pins, hair accessories, scarves, the list goes on and on!

I've been a couple of times and actually the only things I've purchased so far have been re-purposed (because I can't help myself; I'll post about them some other time) but everything is reasonably priced, and have I mentioned, sparkly???

When Mom found the store she decided to just buy a bunch of things and let her girls (Megan, Stephaine and me) pick something from her stash that we liked. I chose these fingerless gloves.

I'm sure you can guess the reason, besides the fact that they were adorable, I wanted to use them as inspiration to make more and more and more! And so I did.

I made these for my Mom as a gift for Christmas since every time she saw me wearing mine she'd ask when I was going to make her a pair, and I was more than happy to set my needles to the task. Since I don't know how to crochet, and had already purchased Martha's glitter eyelash without a project in mind, the edges got fringe instead of trim.

 

I got purple tulle, but a single layer like the original gloves didn't really show up against the yarn so I had to sew the corners of a large piece together several times and then add some beads for more sparkle in the center, creating a flower.

I will be sharing the pattern for these as soon as I make another pair to be sure the pattern is written perfectly. My notes from this pair is a little sloppy.

Don't you just love them? What handmade item did you give as a gift that you were just super excited about?