Keeping Warm Indoors
My daughter has very cold hands in the winter, and her office is definitely not over-heated. When she told me that she had to type a bit, then sit on her hands to warm them up, then type, I knew she needed some fingerless gloves for working. Last year I made my husband a pair, and he now brings them back and forth from work (need to get a second pair for him also). Even though I had been promising her flap mittens, I thought that these were in order first.
A simple pattern. Since I am a numbers person, all multiples of 4. Adjust lengths as needed…
FINGERLESS MITTS
- Use a fingering weight yarn of your choice
- Size 1 needles
- Cast-on 48 sts, join in a round
- K2, P2 for 24 rows
- K 12 rows St st.
- Increase for thumb gusset as follows:
- K 23, PM, inc 1 st (by lifting up bar below)
- K2, inc 1 st, PM
- K23
- Knit next round plain (26 sts, 4 for thumb)
- Increase row by doing one increase inside each marker
- Knit 1 row plain
- When there are 22 sts for thumb, place thumb sts on holder after st st row
- Knit hand portion, CO 2 sts at thumb area (48 sts total).
- K24 rows st st
- *For top of mitt, Purl 1 row, K 1 row (to obtain garter st pattern) for 8 rows, last knit row is the bind-off row*
- Put 22 sts from thumb on needle, CO 2 sts at opening and K 4 rows
- Repeat * to* as for top of mitt.
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Andi 10:51 am on January 8, 2012 Permalink |
Those look nice! Have you thought about making it available as a Ravelry download?
knitting1105 1:21 pm on January 8, 2012 Permalink |
I would love to make this a free download. I just need to figure out how to do that…
Diane Hamilton 2:47 pm on January 15, 2012 Permalink |
Great idea–wondering if I could make these? Still not very good at reading patterns. I started my first knitting class–she is just having us practice, practice, practice. I am anxious to start on the project.
knitting1105 8:07 pm on January 15, 2012 Permalink |
You surely could make them. Once you have finished your class, these are an easy project. I hope you get totally addicted to knitting! I need a cohort in the family.