Freitag, 31. Mai 2024

Partly Biased Fingerless Gloves

I love knitted pieces with constructions that are a bit out of the ordinary. These fingerless gloves have a middle part knitted on a 45 degree angle. They are all in garter stitch and mainly knitted knitted flat (back and forth) – with the exception of the thumb.

They are a great way to show off variegated or self-striping yarn. Because the lengths of the rows vary, colour pooling is less probable.






The pattern PDF is available via

The pattern PDF is 13 pages long and contains:
  • written row-by-row instructions for knitting these gloves in one size – including twelve photos of the different stages (the finished piece (unstretched garter stitch) measures 17 cm in height, with a circumference of 15 cm at the top and 17 cm at the bottom)
  • explanations how to adapt the pattern to other sizes
  • explanations how to knit a variation of these pieces with  stockinette stitch in the middle
  • short photo tutorials for the following techniques
    • Magic CO
    • kbf (a stitch symmetrical to a kfb)
    • Three-Needle Bind Off
    • German Short Rows and how to work the resulting “double-stitch”
    • Picking up Stitches from a gap to avoid holes
You should be comfortable with using the magic loop technique to knit these pieces.

 



To knit these fingerless gloves, you need the following materials:
  • About 150 meters of fingering weight yarn - 
    • for the ones in the title picture I used Hedgehog Fibres, Skinny Singles, (colorway Goblin)
    • for the ones with the contrast stripes, I used Lana Grosse Meilenweit Socktober (colorway 18314321, green), with Wollmeise Pure (dark blue) for the contrasting stripes
    • for the ones with a stockinette part (see below) I used Supergarne Aktiv 4-fach (colorway 3358)
  • 3mm circular knitting needles – at least 80 cm long
  • 3 stitch markers – one of them removable