Poinsettia Fingerless Gloves

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

The Poinsettia fingerless gloves are knitted flat and in garter stitch. They start with a provisional CO, are knitted flat and end with grafting. Finally the side seams have to be sewn together.

Since this is an intarsia project that also uses short rows, it can be quite fiddly. Therefore, it  is NOT a beginner pattern.

The knitting pattern for these fingerless gloves is available via

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This pattern PDF is 13 pages long and contains 

• written row-by-row instructions for knitting a mitt in one size (slight adjustments can be made by using a different needle size)– including seven photos of the different stages  
• 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 and an explanation on doubly wrapped stitches
• intarsia knitting 
• weaving in yarn while carrying it (backwards and forwards)
• crochet CO

To knit these mitts you need the following materials

• Fingering weight yarn in two colours – I used a total about 37 grams:
• about 24 grams (or about 100 metres) of C1 (grey in the title picture)
• about 13 grams (or about 55 metres) of C2 (rainbow colours in the title picture)
• 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
• 2 stitch markers
• a tapestry needles for grafting and to weave in ends and for grafting

The instructions are for one size only. However, I knitted two pairs – one with 2.5 mm needles (top) and one 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 (with an unblocked swatch, since I didn't block the mitts). 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 (also with  unblocked swatch). The piece measures about 18 cm in height and about 16 cm in diameter (just below the thumb).

In any case, the pieces are all in garter stitch, so they are quite stretchy.

Mitred MItts

Some designs take a million tries to get them right (e.g. the Partly Biased Fingerless Gloves I published earlier this year) and others just work at once. This design is of the latter category. I had the idea, drew a picture, tried it and voilà - it worked.

These fingerless gloves are knitted flat and in garter stitch stripes. They start with a provisional CO, is worked in short rows around the thumb and closed by grafting. The combination of stripes and short rows results in a striking geometrical pattern.

Since these mitts are worked with two colours and at times with very short short rows it can be quite fiddly. It is NOT a beginner pattern.

The knitting pattern is available via

• Ravelry 
• Payhip
• Loveknitting (soon)

The pattern PDF is 13 pages long and contains:

• written row-by-row instructions for knitting a mitt in one size only – including eight in-process photos 
• a full chart
• short photo tutorials for the following techniques
• 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 and an explanation on doubly wrapped stitches
• weaving in yarn while carrying it (backwards and forwards)
• crochet CO

To knit these mitts you need the following materials:

• fingering weight yarn in two colors – I used a total about 35 to 40 grams: I used two (semi-)solid colored yarns with a good contrast (about 16 to 20 grams per color)
• 2.5 mm or 3 mm knitting needles (or another needle that gives you the gauge) – straight or circulars
• a crochet hook (about 3mm) and scrap yarn for the provisional CO and for the crochet CO
• 2 stitch markers 
• a tapestry needle for grafting and to weave in ends

The photo on the right shows two pairs that I knitted – one with 2.5 mm needles (top) and one with 3 mm needles (bottom); with one piece 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 26 sts gave 10 cm in width (unblocked, since I didn't block the mitts). The finished piece is about 17 cm high (at it's highest point) and about 16 cm in diameter (without just below the thumb). 
• With 3 mm needles 25 ridges (50 garter stitch rows) gave me 10 cm in height and 24 sts gave 10 cm in width (also unblocked). The finished piece measures about 19 cm in height and about 18 cm in diameter (just below the thumb).

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

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

• Ravelry 
• Payhip
• Loveknitting 

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
  

Railroad Crossing Fingerless Gloves

I love knitting fingerless gloves. They usually are a relatively small project, but they can have quite fun and interesting constructions. These ones are designed in triangles around the thumb. The design makes use of the garter stitch feature that one ridge has about the same width and height. The knitting directions changes a few times, so it is a great way to display some self striping sock yarn.

I called them Railroad Crossing Fingerless Gloves because the flat piece reminded me of the traffic sign.

 

The knitting pattern is available via

• Ravelry 
• Lovecrafts
• Payhip

The pattern PDF is 20 pages long and contains 

• written row-by-row instructions for knitting this piece in one size only – including 19 in-process photos
• an explanation (plus schematic) of the construction,
• short photo tutorials for the following techniques
• crochet CO (at the edge of a knitted piece)
• kbf – knit through back and front of a stitch, a stitch that is symmetrical to a kfb
• german short rows (with double-stitches) and how to work the resulting double-stitches 
• pick up and knit 
• pick up and connect, i.e. picking up a stitch and connecting it in a 90 degree angle to your knitting

This is NOT a beginner pattern.

Size and Gauge

To get a certain variation in size I knitted not only in 3mm needles (see picture on the right, top pair of mitts), but also one pair with 2.5 mm needles (see picture on the right, bottom pair of mitts):

• With 3 mm needles 26 ridges (53 garter stitch rows) gave me 10 cm in height and 23 sts gave 10 cm in width (with an unblocked swatch, since I didn't block the mitts). The finished piece measures 19 cm in height, with a circumference of 15.5 cm at the top and 19 cm at the bottom.
• 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 (also with  unblocked swatch). The finished piece measures 16.5 cm in height, with a circumference of 14.5 cm at the top and 17 cm at the bottom.

To knit these fingerless gloves you need the following materials

• 150 meters of fingering weight yarn weight yarn 
• the pink-yellow ones (title picture) are knitted in Sockenwolle 4-fach Citron by Daniela's Wolltopf (colorway Neolino) - here's a link to the yarn's Ravelry page
• the green/brown/azure blue ones (smaller ones in picture displaying the different sizes) are knitted in Regia 4-ply (Regia Spring Fling Color, colorway 3812) 
• the sky blue/light green ones with a bit of red and purple (see picture showing different views below) in knitted with Zwerger Opal Gutenachtgeschichten 4-ply (colorway Das Mädchen und der Blumendrache) - here's a link to the yarn's Ravelry page
• 3 mm knitting needles – I used 80 cm circulars as main needles to knit the thumb
• two additional 3mm knitting needles – I used dpns to knit the panels around the thumb
• a crochet hook that is a bit bigger than the knitting needles (I used a 4 mm hook) 
• a tapestry needle – for grafting and to weave in ends

Different views (left: before sewing up, middle: back of hand, right: palm)

Rail Fence Fingerless Gloves

The inspiration for these mitts comes from a quilt pattern I saw on social media. I asked myself whether it would be possible to arrange similar panels around the thumb to created a pair of fingerless gloves. After a few tries, it worked. In fact, you could actually view it as one big entrelac piece around a thumb.

The name of quilt pattern that first inspired me is Rail Fence. However, the similarity is only visible if you look at the an unseamed mitt laid out flat. Because of the changes in knitting direction, this is a great way to showcase your self-striping yarn. 

This knitting pattern is available via

• Ravelry 
• Payhip
• Loveknitting 

The pattern PDF is 14 pages long and contains

• written row-by-row instructions for knitting this piece in one size only – including 15 in-process photos
• an explanation (plus schematic) of the construction, and explanations how to make them bigger or smaller
• short photo tutorials for the following techniques
• crochet CO (at the edge of a knitted piece)
• kbf – knit through back and front of a stitch, a stitch that is symmetrical to a kfb
• short rows with wrap and turn and picking up the wraps
• pick up and knit, pick up and purl
• pick up and connect, i.e. picking up a stitch and connecting it in a 90 degree angle to your knitting

The finished piece measures 17 cm in height and about 17 cm in circumference (top and bottom and about a cm more at its widest point. The picture on the right shows one finished mitt and one just before sewing up the side seams.

As to gauge, in garter stitch 12 stitches gave 5 cm in width, and 12 ridges (24 rows) 5 cm in height – this was measured on an unblocked piece.

To knit these mitts you need the following materials:

• 130 meters of fingering weight yarn weight yarn - I used self-striping:
• for the ones in the title picture I used Zwerger Opal Rainforest, Colorway 9902
• the pair on the pictures below was knitted with Zwerger Opal Blütenpracht, Colorway 54, Mohn Poppy
• 3 mm knitting needles – I used 80 cm circulars as main needles
• two additional 3mm knitting needles – I used dpns
• a crochet hook that is a bit bigger than the knitting needles (I used a 4 mm hook)  
• a tapestry needle – for grafting and to weave in ends
  

Pieces of Eight Mitts in Dutch - Gratis Breipatroon

Carolien (or mijikke on Ravelry) has provided a Dutch translation of the Pieces of Eight Mitts. Hartelijk bedankt!

The Dutch translation can be found here.

The original English version is available here - as well as links to German and Danish translations.

A list of all translations of my patterns can be found in this blogpost.

Mauerblümchen

Here's another pattern for fingerless gloves - again knitted flat and in garter stitch. 

These fingerless gloves are knitted flat and in garter stitch. They are shaped with short rows around a point at the outer wrist, the thumb is created one half at a time (with a short knitted CO and a BO). The flower pattern is done in intarsia technique. The project starts with a provisional cast on and finishes with grafting in garter stitch. In the end the side seams are sewn up.

Since this is an intarsia project with three colours that also uses short rows, it can be quite fiddly.  It is NOT a beginner pattern.

As to the name, "Mauerblümchen" is the German word for wall flower - it ties in with my Blümchen Fingerless Gloves that have a flower motive around the thumb.

The knitting pattern in available via

• Ravelry
• Loveknitting
• Payhip

The pattern PDF is 13 pages long and contains 

• written row-by-row instructions for knitting a mitt in one size (slight adjustments can be made by using a different needle size) – including nine in-process photos  
• a pattern chart
• short photo tutorials for the following techniques
• 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 
• intarsia knitting and weaving in yarn while carrying it (backwards and forwards)
• knitted CO 

Gauge and Size

I knitted two pairs – one with 2.5 mm needles and one with 3 mm needles – see photo below.

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 (with an unblocked swatch, since I didn't block the mitts). The finished piece knitted with 2.5 mm needles is about 17 - 18 cm high (at it's highest point) and about 17 cm in diameter (without 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 (also with  unblocked swatch). The finished piece measures about 19 - 20 cm in height and about 19 cm in diameter (just below the thumb).

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

To knit a pair of these fingerless gloves you need the following materials:

• a total of 30 to 35 grams of fingering weight yarn in two colors:
• about 12 grams per mitt for C1 (background color)
• about 4 grams per mitt for C2 (flower color)
• 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
• a tapestry needles for grafting, sewing and to weave in ends

Ripple Fingerless Gloves

Fingerless gloves are my favorite accessory – there are so many varieties and ways to construct them.

The ones here are knitted flat and in garter stitch with a wave pattern. One edge of the flat row is the thumb around which the mitt shaped in short rows. It starts with a provisional cast on and ends with a row of grafting in garter stitch. The wavy patternis created with increases and decreases.

This is NOT a beginner pattern.

The knitting pattern is available via

• Ravelry
• Lovecrafts
• Payhip 

The pattern PDF is 12 pages long contains 

• written row-by-row instructions for knitting a mitt in one size (slight adjustments can be made by using a different needle size)– including six photos of the different stages  
• a full pattern chart
• short photo tutorials for the following techniques:
• 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 

Gauge and Size

I knitted pairs in two needle sizes – with 2.5 mm needles and with 3 mm needles – see photo below:

• 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 (with an unblocked swatch, since I didn't block the mitts). The finished piece knitted with 2.5 mm needles is about 19 cm high (at it's highest point) and about 17 cm in diameter (without 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 (also with  unblocked swatch). The finished piece measures about 20 cm in height and about 19 cm in diameter (just below the thumb).

To knit a pair of these fingerless gloves you need:

• a total of about 35 to 40 grams of fingering weight yarn - I used 
• Zwerger Opal Fairytale (colorway 9794 Knusperhaus) for nearly rainbow colored mitts in the title photo (link to the yarn's Ravelry page)
• Vendita sock yarn (colorway 12) for the blue green pair  (link to the yarn's Ravelry page)
• Zwerger Opal 4-ply (colourway  9692, "Ice Cream / Sahnequark") for the grey pair (link to the yarn's Ravelry page)
• 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
• 10 stitch markers – 4 of which removable  
• a tapestry needles for grafting and to weave in ends

One mitt finished - one mitt needs to be sewn up

Blümchen Fingerless Gloves

I love fingerless gloves. They are my favorite accessory – and also my favorite piece to knit because they offer so many varieties of constructing them. These are knitted flat and in garter stitch. One edge of the row is the thumb and the mitt shaped around it in short rows. The flower pattern is done in intarsia technique. The piece starts with a provisional CO and is finished by grafting in garter stitch. After grafting the side seams are sewn up.

Since this is an intarsia project with three colours that also uses short rows, it can be quite fiddly. It is NOT a beginner pattern.

The pattern is available via 

• Ravelry
• Lovecrafts
• Payhip

The pattern PDF is 15 pages long and contains

• written row-by-row instructions for knitting a glove in one size (see below) – including eight photos of the different stages
• pattern chart
• short photo tutorials for the following techniques
• 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 
• intarsia knitting 
• weaving in yarn while carrying it (backwards and forwards)
• step-by-step explanations with photos of
• undoing the provisional CO in this pattern (i.e. catching stitches in different colours)
• grafting with colour changes

Gauge and Size(s)

I knitted two pairs – one with 2.5 mm needles and one with 3 mm needles:

• 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 (with an unblocked swatch, since I didn't block the mitts). The finished piece knitted with 2.5 mm needles is about 18 cm high (at it's highest point) and about 16 cm in diameter (without 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 (also with  unblocked swatch). The finished piece measures about 20 cm in height and about 18 cm in diameter (just below the thumb).

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

The picture below shows a comparison of the two "sizes".

To knit a pair of these fingerless gloves you need the following materials

• Fingering weight yarn in three colors – I used a total about 35 to 40 grams (or 150 to 170 metres):
• about 20 grams of C1 (green in the title picture)
• about 14 grams of C2 (white in the title picture)
• about 4 grams of C3 (pink in the title picture)
• 2.5 mm or 3 mm knitting needles – straight or circulars (or another needle that gives you the gauge) 
• scrap yarn and a crochet hook (about 3mm) for the provisional CO
• 2 removable stitch markers 
• two tapestry needles for grafting and to weave in ends

Just before finishing the 2nd mitt :)

Slightly Slanted Fingerless Gloves

I like fingerless gloves – and I like knitting  them a bit different from the standard loom-style construction. This usually leads to special patterns that are particularly attractive when used with  some self-striping yarn. Plus it may lead to mitts, where you only have to weave in  two ends per mitt – one of my personal obsessions :)  

This is the case with these fingerless gloves. They are knitted in one piece – starting with a garter stitch ribbing knitted sideways and continued with a main part that is knitted (slightly) on the bias. The upper ribbing is also in garter stitch to level the bias, and finally the thumb part is added. These gloves are (nearly) knitted in knit stitch only –  the only exception are a few increases and decreases for the thumb gusset and k1p1-ribbing at the thumb.

You can buy the pattern PDF via

• Ravelry
• Loveknitting 
• Payhip

The pattern PDF is 10 pages long and contains

• a schematic how the mitts are constructed
• written row-by-row instructions for knitting these fingerless gloves in one size  – including 9 in-process photos of the gloves in different stages
• explanations how to adapt the pattern to other sizes
• short photo tutorials of the following techniques: 
• provisional cast-on and how to undo it, 
• three-needle bind-off, 
• picking up and knitting stitches from the slanted edge of your knitting, 
• picking up stitches from gaps (e.g. necessary after changes in direction)

Size

The mitts are 19 cm high and have a circumference of 17 cm at the wrist edge and of 16 cm at the fingers

To knit this pattern the following techniques are used

• provisional CO and undoing it
• three needle BO
• picking up stitches from the edge of a knitted piece
• picking up stitches from a gap (e.g. when doing a thumb gusset)

For all these techniques/skills, the pattern PDF contains photo tutorials. 

Materials

The following materials are necessary to knit these fingerless gloves:

• about 35 grams of fingering weight yarn, I used 
• Lang Yarn Twin Soxx, colorway 909 (title photo) - here's a link to the yarn's Ravelry page
• Lana Grossa Meilenweit Konfetti, colorway 2508 (other photos) - link to the yarn's Ravelry page 
• 3mm needles, for fingerless gloves such as these, I tend to switch between dpns and circulars, but it's possible to use either of them
• one surplus knitting needle (in a similar size, preferably also 3mm) 
• a stitch holder for the thumb stitches (scrap yarn works well, too)
• 5 stitch markers - one of them removable
• scrap yarn and a crochet hook (about 3mm) for the provisional COs
• a tapestry needle to weave in ends

Perpendicularity Mitts

 I love fingerless gloves. They are my favorite accessory – and knitting project. They are fun to knit and wear, and on top of that  they are so versatile – especially in terms of construction, which shows off nicely, if you use variegated or self-striping yarn. 

These mitts are constructed in seven parts, each of which either starting with a provisional CO or by picking up stitches from the edge, and some are finished by a three-needle BO (three times) and (the last one) by grafting in garter stitch. 

This means that the mitts are knitted in one piece each – so you only have to weave in two ends for each glove. 

The pattern is available on

• Ravelry
• Loveknitting 
• Payhip

This pattern PDF is 13 pages long and contains 

• written row-by-row instructions for knitting these fingerless gloves in one size – including 21 photos of the different stages
• explanations how to adapt the pattern to other sizes
• a schematic how the mitts are constructed
• short photo tutorials of the following techniques:
• provisional cast-on and how to undo it
• three-needle bind-off
• picking up and knitting stitches from the edge of your knitting
• picking up stitches from gaps (e.g. necessary after changes in direction)
• short rows with wrap and turn 
• grafting in garter stitch

To knit these fingerless gloves you need the following materials:

• about 35 to 40 grams of fingering weight yarn 
• 3mm needles, for fingerless gloves such as these, I tend to switch between dpns and circulars, but it's possible to use either of them
• one surplus knitting needle (of the same size (3mm))
• scrap yarn and a crochet hook (about 3mm) for the provisional COs
• a stitch holder for the thumb stitches (scrap yarn works well, too)
• 3 stitch markers and a tapestry needle to weave in ends