I was able to get exactly 10 entrelac panels out of two skeins of the Premier Yarns Serenity Garden yarn. (And I mean exactly. I had to steal a few yards of matching yarn from my stash - I have no idea what it was - to finish the 10th panel.) Two of the panels were used for this pair of gloves. The other eight were used for other projects (these mitts and these mitts). The length of the color repeat was such that I did not end up with any 2 panels that matched exactly, but when paired up in the order that I made them it was pretty close.

In addition to making them with full fingers rather than half fingers I made a few modifications to the construction of these gloves. Rather than bind off the palm portion, seaming (leaving the hole for the thumb) and then picking up stitches for the thumb, I bound off 6 stitches at the cuff end and 10 stitches at the top end and left the center 14 stitches live. I placed the live stitches on waste yarn and seamed the top and bottom bound off stitches to the entrelac panel. Then when working the thumb I placed those 14 stitches on my circular needle and picked up 16 more stitches along the entrelac edge (14 along the side and 1 additional stitch at each end), for the total of 30 thumb stitches. This eliminates the seam on the palm side of the thumb. I felt the thumb was rather large, especially compared to the snug fit of the other fingers, so I decreased an additional 2 stitches twice several rows after the round of thumb decreases included in the pattern. I added one more stitch to the ribbing section beginning and ending the ribbing with 2 knit stitches to make the seaming easier. (I used a sort of modified Mattress Stitch seaming the side edge of the ribbing to the edge of the entrelac.)

In previous versions of this pattern I picked up 2 additional stitches for the pinkie finger to give a little more comfortable fit, but even with those 2 extra stitches I often found that the pinkie finger felt very tight at the base while the other fingers did not. (I swear I do not have exceptionally fat pinkie fingers.) I think I have determined what was causing this to occur. The pinkie finger is started immediately after picking up the stitches at the top of the hand while the remaining fingers are started after an additional 2 rounds have been knit around the top of the hand. Those picked up stitches at the base of the pinkie don’t have the freedom of movement afforded to the other fingers by those extra rows of knitting. For these mitts I knit one round after the picked up stitches before beginning the pinkie. The combination of the 2 extra picked up stitches and that extra round of knitting prior to beginning the pinkie seems to have made a world of difference.

These gloves were made on a 47” US size 3 circular needle and size 3 double points. I used a US size 4 to bind off, and used Jeny’s Surprisingly Stretchy Bind-Off for the ribbing.