Some years ago I sold my Rowan magazines on Ebay and gave my knitting needles to Oxfam.
A few weeks ago, driven by the memory of a pattern for a Sanquhar sweater in a book of traditional knitting patterns, and perhaps by the current fashion for all things black and white, I started searching the internet for a pattern for the traditional Sanquhar glove. I found it in Japan (www.tata-tatao.to/knit/sanquhar/e-howtoknit.html).
The picture is of my first attempt, with the smallest finger still to do. I used a lace weight yarn and 2¼mm double pointed needles. The glove is coming out a reasonable size but the thumb is too long. I will probably undo this, then decide whether it is worth knitting the second glove.
There are various mysteries in the pattern (written in English but by someone whose first language is probably Japanese), the greatest of these is how to alternate the pattern up the fingers, where there are 3 pattern blocks to be divided between 2 patterns. To solve this problem I used a third pattern from a glove pictures on a Scottish museum website http://futuremuseum.co.uk/default.aspx?Id=461
A few weeks ago, driven by the memory of a pattern for a Sanquhar sweater in a book of traditional knitting patterns, and perhaps by the current fashion for all things black and white, I started searching the internet for a pattern for the traditional Sanquhar glove. I found it in Japan (www.tata-tatao.to/knit/sanquhar/e-howtoknit.html).
The picture is of my first attempt, with the smallest finger still to do. I used a lace weight yarn and 2¼mm double pointed needles. The glove is coming out a reasonable size but the thumb is too long. I will probably undo this, then decide whether it is worth knitting the second glove.
There are various mysteries in the pattern (written in English but by someone whose first language is probably Japanese), the greatest of these is how to alternate the pattern up the fingers, where there are 3 pattern blocks to be divided between 2 patterns. To solve this problem I used a third pattern from a glove pictures on a Scottish museum website http://futuremuseum.co.uk/default.aspx?Id=461
