There’s something ironic and tender about forming a knitted hand with your hands… . I couldn’t decide on the cuff length for these gloves, so I made an asymmetrical pair.  If you want to make opera-length gloves (which reach past the elbow) add a few inches’ worth of stitches to the cast-on edge, then decrease gradually to the wrist.  -- description from Loop-d-Loop, pg. 26 (pattern on pg. 52)