Mitred Lace Mitts

Fingerless gloves are my favourite accessory – and also my favourite piece to knit because they offer so many varieties of constructing them and – since they are relatively small – trying out ideas. 

These fingerless gloves are knitted flat around the thumb with a garter stitch lace pattern. To finish these some advanced techniques are used, so this is not a beginner pattern.

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The knitting pattern is 13 pages long and contains

• written row-by-row instructions for knitting a mitt in one size – including seven photos of the different stages (slight sizing adjustments can be made by using a different needle size)
• a pattern chart
• short photo tutorials for the following techniques that are needed to knit these mitts
• provisional CO with a crochet hook and how to undo it
• grafting in garter stitch
• short rows with wrap and turn and picking up the wraps 
• picking up wrapped stitches while grafting a row in garter stitch
• crochet CO

To knit these you need

• Fingering weight yarn – for the lace pattern to be visible it is a good idea to use a light (semi-)solid yarn – I used:
• 26 grams of an old cotton sock yarn for the mitts on the title photo
• 40 grams of Wollmeise Twin for the grey ones  
• 26 grams of Malabrigo sock for the dark purple mitts in the size photo (as you can see there, the darker the yarn, the less visible the lace pattern is)
• 2.5 mm or 3 mm knitting needles (or another needle that gives you the gauge) – straight or circulars
• scrap yarn and a crochet hook (about 3mm) for the provisional CO and the crochet CO
• a tapestry needles for grafting and to weave in ends

Gauge and sizes

I knitted these mitts with different needles – with 2.5 mm needles (top) and with 3 mm needles (bottom) – the photo on the right shows each pair with one mitt already sewn up and one before that step:

• With 2.5 mm needles 28 ridges (56 garter stitch rows) gave me 10 cm in height and 25 sts gave 10 cm in width. The finished piece knitted with 2.5 mm needles is about 17 cm high (at it's highest point) and about 15.5 cm in diameter (just below the thumb). 
• With 3 mm needles 26 ridges (53 garter stitch rows) gave me 10 cm in height and 23 sts gave 10 cm in width. The piece measures about 18.5 cm in height and about 16 cm in diameter (just below the thumb).

However, the pieces are all in lacy garter stitch, so they are quite stretchy.