I've hit a sudden fingerless glove kick. You know, the kind where you look at patterns and think about actually knitting them. As nearly everything I'm interested in is done in fine weight yarns, I have doubts any of them will actually materialize.
One thing I've noticed whilst browsing through Rav's pattern database is that all the different types of fingerless hand covers get lumped into the same pile. Not just on Rav, that's just limits on available search parameters, but with designers. As a general rule, you can say that fingerless mitts are "chopped off mittens" with one big finger hole, and that fingerless gloves are, well, "chopped off gloves" with individual finger holes. But it's not universal. And that makes me wish I could mandate this for every designer now and into the future. I want to be able to type "fingerless gloves" into google and get actual fingerless gloves. Not fingerless gloves mixed in with fingerless mittens. Ok, maybe that's too much to ask of google. But it would be nice to be able to look at the pattern name and know instantly what kind of finger holes you're getting even when the picture is artsy and the fingers are hidden (what's with that?).
So can we all agree?
Fingerless mitts = one big finger hole
Fingerless gloves = individual finger holes
Thanks in advance. ;)
PS: There is a serious shortage of fingerless glove patterns out there, at least compared to fingerless mitts. Yeah yeah, mitts are easier to design, blah blah. I guess fixing that is up to me, huh?
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