A couple of months ago, we received a call from Marla Phelps in Tenants Harbor, a fishing community on the St. George Peninsula, gateway to Maine’s beautiful Penobscot Bay. Marla’s son Sgt. Michael Wall, is a career soldier stationed in Afghanistan, where the winters are very cold — perhaps even colder than Maine winters. Remembering the warm woolen fisherman mittens his grandmother used to make, Sgt. Wall asked her to make 16 pairs for his unit. Unfortunately, Mrs. Wall doesn’t knit any more and couldn’t remember the pattern she used … so Michael’s family asked Halcyon Yarn for help.

Without further ado, here are the directions for making the Guard’s Gauntlet, an alternative to the Glomitt, that is a bit easier to make, and very cool in it's own right!

Click on the zip/PDF file below the photo to download pattern, or click on the image to see a bigger picture of the glomitt! The pattern is a pdf file, but it is zipped to make it a smaller download. You should be able to double click it to "unzip" it, and then double click the file "019001P-Guantlet2" to open the pdf file. Good luck.
Thanks! Amos.

PS... .When you're done, you can send them to:
KnitALong
Halcyon Yarn
12 School Street
Bath, ME 04530