Busy Busy Busy With A New Knitting Pattern

With Christmas right around the corner I am hard at it. I have decided that a package going back east should contain some mittens and then I decided not just mittens but Glomitts which are a hybrid mitten and glove combined. They are also called shooting mittens because a lot of the soldiers in Afghanistan really like to use them on cold nights. So I went looking for a pattern and there was nary a pattern to be found. The internet had one solitary Glomitt pattern that is put out be Halcyon Yarns and it was not at all what I was looking for so I decided to come up with my own.  The pattern that I came up with are for two needles and not DPNs.  I have been knitting steady for three days and am just about finished them after having to figure things out as I go and raveling back a little, a few times to make them bigger or smaller as needs be. All that is left to do on one is sew on the flap and on the other I need to sew the side seam and knit the thumb and sew on the flap... so they should be finished today. I will post a picture when they are done.

In the meantime, I will post the pattern here for anyone who would like to knit a pair.... and they are better than Halcyon's!

Mens Glomitts

Using 4mm knitting needles cast on 50 stitches.

Row 1: *K 3, P2, repeat from * to end.

Row 2: Knit on knit stitches and purl on purl stitches.

Row 3: same as Row 1.

Row 4: same as Row 2.

Row 5: *Knit 3 and pass the first of the 3 over the other 2, P 2, repeat from * to end.

Row 6: * Knit 2, P1  increasing F and B, P1, repeat from * to end of row.

Continue on knitting rows 3 through 6 until you have completed 8 patterns.

Increase for the width of the hand in this way.

Knit rows 3 through 5.

Next Row: *K1 increasing F and B, K 1, P 1 increasing F and B, P1, repeat from * to end.  60 stitches.

Continue knitting the following rows until 4 more patterns have been completed.

Row 1: *K3, P3, repeat from * to end.

Row 2: Knit on knit stitches and purl on purl stitches.

Row 3: *K3 and pass the first of the 3 over the other 2, P3, repeat from * to end.

Row 4: *K3, P1 increasing F and B, P1, repeat from * to end. 

Making the thumb hole: for the left hand glove.

 Row 1: K3, (P3, K3) 3 times, K1.Then, knit the next 6 stitches in pattern with your contrasting scrap yarn. Drop contrasting scrap yarn so that both ends of it are hanging to the outside of the Glomitt (this makes it easier to remove the yarn later). Slide these 6 stitches off of the right needle back onto the left. Pick up your working yarn, and continue knitting Glomitt in the main pattern. This means you’ll knit the six stitches knit with the scrap yarn on your left needle again. Continue to the end of the row maintaining the pattern. Just keep knitting in the main pattern like nothing ever happened until 17 patterns have been repeated from the original cast on.

Cast off.

 Making the thumb hole: for the right hand glove:

Row 1: (K3, P3,) 4 times, K2. Then, knit the next 6 stitches in pattern with your contrasting scrap yarn. Drop contrasting scrap yarn so that both ends of it are hanging to the outside of the Glomitt (this makes it easier to remove the yarn later). Slide these 6 stitches off of the right needle back onto the left. Pick up your working yarn, and continue knitting Glomitt in the main pattern. This means you’ll knit the six stitches knit with the scrap yarn on your left needle again.  Continue to the end of the row maintaining the pattern. Just keep knitting in the main pattern like nothing ever happened until 17 patterns have been repeated from the original cast on.

Knit the thumb by removing the scrap piece of yarn and picking up 6 bottom stitches and 3 stitches in the side, 6 more across the top, and 3 more down the other side. There should be 18 stitches in all, divided over three sive 3 mm DPNs evenly.  Knit thumb in stockinette stitch to length desired decreasing in this manner for the top of the thumb:

Next Row: *K2 tog, K1, repeat from * to end. 4 stitches per needle.

Next Row: Knit

Next Row: *K1, K2 tog, K1 repeat from * to end. 3 stitches per needle.

Break yarn and thread a darning needle, then pull the thread through all remaining stitches and draw tight, ending with a sewing stitch to hold the top of the thumb together. Darn in the tail of the thread.


Flap for the Glomitt:

Cast on 60 stitches with 4 mm needles.

Row 1: *K3, P3, repeat from * to end.

Row 2: Knit on knit stitches and purl on purl stitches.

Row 3: same as Row 1.

Row 4: same as Row 2.

Row 5: *K3 and pass the first of the 3 over the other 2, P3, repeat from * to end.

Row 6: *K3, P1 increasing F and B, P1, repeat from * to end.

 Continue in pattern until 2 patterns have been completed.

Follow the first five rows of the pattern then:


Change to 3.25 mm needles and continue in stockinette stitch for 6 rows. Mark the middle of the row with a stitch marker.

Next Row: *K2, sl 1, K1, psso, knit to the last 4 stitches before the stitch marker*, K2 tog, K2. Pass the stitch marker from the left needle to the right and continue from * to * K2 tog, K2.

Continue in stockinette stitch for 2 rows.

Next Row: *K2, sl 1, K1, psso, knit to the last 4 stitches before the stitch marker*, K2 tog, K2. Pass the stitch marker from the left needle to the right and continue from * to * K2 tog, K2.

Continue in stockinette stitch for 2 rows.

Next Row: *K2, sl 1, K1, psso, knit to the last 4 stitches before the stitch marker*, K2 tog, K2. Pass the stitch marker from the left needle to the right and continue from * to * K2 tog, K2.

Continue in stockinette stitch for 1 row.


Next Row: *K2, sl 1, K1, psso, knit to the last 4 stitches before the stitch marker*, K2 tog, K2. Pass the stitch marker from the left needle to the right and continue from * to * K2 tog, K2.

Continue decreasing in this manner until 12 stitches are left. 6 before the marker and 6 after the marker.

To Cast off:

Slip first 6 stitches onto an extra size 3.25 needle or a stitch holder or a cable needle.
Fold the Flap in half and K 1 stitch from each needle together continuing in this manner until end. You should have 6 stitches. Cast off in usual manner.

Finishing the Glomitt
Sew the side seams on the glove and on the flap darning in any end as you go.

Stitch between the fingers, a few stitches  with your darning needle, if you want the fingers defined. You can also leave the hand open.

Sew the flap on the back of the glove 1 inch from the top. The flap can be held open with a magnet... I use a hematite bead on the back of the Glomitt and on the tip of the flap.
 
The right hand glove is the same as the left except using the instructions for the right hand thumb directions.

Here are some pictures of the Glomitt finished... I am sorry that the pictures are not better. I will have  to get Teapot to model them later on when he get's home from work.

PS The bullying situation is still pending....