Free Pattern - Fingerless Gloves!

Hooray, it's here!

I asked you what pattern you wanted and first place was claimed by fingerless gloves, and to my surprise the skinny bow scarf came at a second. My surprise about the scarf is because it was such an easy design that I had forgotten about until I looked on the photos page and decided I should put it on the poll. Health permitting, it will be written up next week.

Lets get on with the free pattern. This is a photo of what you'll be knitting, one glove from two different pairs if you want, you could make a pair purposely made to have different colours like in the photo or you could make a matching pair!

These gloves fit me but are quite loose and I have small wrists, if you want to make them any bigger or smaller take off/add on a multiple of 6 stitches. I measured around the glove whilst wearing it and it was 18cm but the ribbing stretches a lot.

To make these gloves you'll need.

3 1/2mm knitting needles (you could convert to dpns/magic loop if you mark the beginning of the round)

Sewing needle for yarn

DK yarn in two different colours, I use Special by Stylecraft, it's soft, cheap and cheerful

With colour A (the dark blue/dark green in the photo) cast on 42 stitches

Row 1 *k3 p3* until end

Row 2 *p3 k3* until end
Repeat rows 1-2,  2 times (6 rows)

Change to colour B

Repeat Rows 1 -6

Change to colour A

Repeat until you have 4 stripes in each colour, last stripe should be in colour B.

Change to colour A

Row 1 *K1, Kfb* until end

Row 2 *K1, P1* until end
Row 3 *p1, k1* until end

Repeat row 2-3 2 more times (5 rows in total since change to colour A)

Cast off

Sew the seam using the same colour as the stripe, leaving a gap for your thumb, it's up to you how long the gap is.

Please let me know how the pattern is for you, I'm not feeling 100% today so I couldn't work out how many stitches you'd have after Row 1 (k1, kfb) after knitting 4 stripes in each colour.

I hope you like the pattern, it's quick to knit up and really easy, if you do knit the pattern feel free to send photos to me at jasminescrafts@hotmail.co.uk

Hand knitted hugs

Jasmine x