Saturday, November 08, 2008

Stylish Fingerless Gloves

Ta da!!! I finally have a pair of gloves!

I love this pattern because lengthy decreasing is not needed, just a sudden increase to allow room for the thumb, and the ribbing shapes itself to your hand!




Needles: a set of 4 dpn, US size 5
Yarn: thin worsted weight, approx. 80 yards (I used handspun)
Gauge: 32 rows and 20 stitches is 4' square in 2x2 ribbing
Notions: 1 stitch marker
Fits: a medium woman's hand


Pattern:

**Note: Knitting begins at the fingers and works down to the cuff.


Fingerless Gloves (make 2)

-CO 36 sts and divide evenly on three needles. Place marker. Join, being careful not to twist.

-Work in k2 p2 ribbing until the piece measures 2.5 inches (6.4 cm) or desired length. This should fit comfortably from mid palm up to fingers.

-At the end of the next row, BO 4 sts You now have 32 sts.

-At the end of the next row, CO 8 sts. You now have 40 sts.

-Cont in 2x2 ribbing until work from BO/CO section is approx 4 inches (10 cm) or enough length to cover palm and go down the wrist.

-BO all stitches.

I finished the second super secret project, and am on a great start on the third.
School is still crazy, so please bear with me!

5 comments:

Sisterly Knits said...

I love the fingerless gloves. They look really nice. :D

aksunflour said...

fingerless gloves are so easy- a seriously quick fix.

Hope you all are ok and didn't get hit w/much snow.
(and if you are nowhere near there- well then my geography is off. been avoiding the news lately.)

Tama said...

Very cute. I have found about a hundred patterns for cute fingerless mittens on Ravelry that I can't wait to make. You really can't have too many pairs of them you know!

Lee said...

Ok, apropos of nothing, I saw this today and thought of you (in case you run out of ideas of things to make)

http://sternlab.org/2008/04/body-technology-interfaces/

Anonymous said...

Lovely gloves.