Samoom (Gloves)

Can you imagine a wind so hot and dry that it is called poison? In this glove design, I have played with “poisonously” bright variegated yarn contrasted with a solid. Offset cables mimic sand moved by the wind. The cuff has Arabic lettering for the word Samoom stranded as a Middle Eastern flavored variation on Fair Isle. This is a perfect design to use that bright skein of hand dyed yarn that is a bit too much knit by itself. The contrast color can easily be used for all three sizes, to make a matching or coordinating set for the whole family.

Yarn Required: approximately 155 (180, 210) yards / 145 (165, 195) meters sport weight yarn in Main Color (MC)

60 (75, 90) yards / 55 (70, 85) meters sport weight yarn in Contrast Color (CC)

Finished Measurements: approximately 7.5 (8, 9.25) inches / 18.5 (20, 23) cm finished circumference around hand

Skills Required: Casting on provisionally, knitting in the round, increasing and decreasing, cabling, chart reading, stranded knitting, picking up stitches, duplicate stitch.

Yarn weight: Sport (12 wpi) 

Gauge: 28 stitches and 36 rows = 4 inches in Stranded Chart B, on larger needles, blocked

Needle sizeUS 2½ - 3.0 mm

US 3 - 3.25 mm

Sizes available: Child's Large/Women's Small (Women's Medium/Men's Small, Women's Large/Men's Medium)

Languages: English

Pattern instructions are written, but colorwork patterns are given in chart form only.