I recently purchased some knitting booklets from Iva Rose Vintage Reproductions. These patterns are absolutely fascinating - they have hats you can knit for your Air Raid Warden, mittens for bicycling????!!, and even Puritan Socks. Iva Rose doesn't just focus on knitting - you can even find such titles as "Scientific Hat Finishing and Renovating." All Iva Rose pattern books are 50% off until November 30, 2006.

Here's my favorite pattern find so far. Can you spot anything interesting about these gloves? Can those of you who've made Sanquhar gloves spot it?



Yes, these gloves from 1902 have individual triangular gussets between each finger. (You can kind of tell by looking at the lumps of knitted fabric between each finger - Sanquhar gloves also have these gussets in much finer fabric.)

I may make these for DH as I think he'll appreciate the extra movement the finger gussets give his hand. The instructions call for "medium-sized steel needles and Dexter cotton no. 10". The gloves start with 48 stitches so I'll probably do these in a sport or DK weight wool.