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A Favorite Quick Knit: Fingerless Gloves

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I love to wear fingerless gloves because my hands are always cold, but they make it possible for me to type or knit or just about anything else I need to do while staying a little bit warmer.

Looking for more knitting patterns for Mittens? Check these out on Etsy. 

I also love to knit fingerless gloves, because most people appreciate them, and they can be really fast and easy projects. I like them so much, in fact that I’ve done not one but two roundups of such patterns in the past: one for fingerless gloves for a Mother’s Day gift, and the other suggesting them as a quick knit gift last December (a year ago yesterday, in fact!)

Neither of these mentions the pattern that I spent a whole December knitting a couple of years ago. The Cornucopia Wristers by Tanis Gray are pretty, dead simple to knit and really fast, too. I think I knit five pairs of those gloves that year to give to the women in my life, the girl’s teachers, and a pair for myself of course (which I’m wearing as I type this, mine are in Malabrigo). By the end I think I could knit a mitt in about an hour and had the pattern memorized.

Some more great glove or mitten patterns that aren’t already on my lists include the Amity Wristwarmers from Tahki Stacy Charles, which use a fun slip stitch pattern and cables for lots of texture and warmth; and the single-color cable knit handwarmers from The Things We Do. These would be a great project for a guy, too.

Do you have a go-to fingerless glove knitting pattern? I’d love to hear about it!

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  1. I made a pair a few years ago for me cameraman Hubby. He loves em. Then I promptly “lost” the pattern! Thanks for the round-up!

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Stitch Your Favorite Fruit on a Sweater

The other day I saw a post from Pinterest about trends for summer and it said one of them was “cultivating whimsy.” 

Well, I don’t know where Pinterest has been all this time, but we’ve been cultivating whimsy here at Craft Gossip for a long time. I love sharing projects that are a little different, things that make you smile when you see them, and will make you smile when you knit them and wear them or use them. 

Such it is with the Tutti Frutti tee knitting pattern from Bea Creative Knits. 

This cute little baby tee is worked top down in the round with contiguous shoulder construction to shape the sleeve caps. There are short rows for the neckline and folded hems with picot edging at the hemline, neckline and edges of the sleeves. 

All of this would be great on its own, but then there’s the addition of a super cute fruit icon, which is added with duplicate stitch. There are a lot of options, including strawberry, banana, orange, cherries, watermelon, lemon, blueberries, kiwi, peach, dragon fruit, apple and pear, so it’s likely you can add on your favorite fruit. 

It is offered in eight sizes, to fit a bust measurement ranging from 28-30 inches (71-76 cm) to 56-58 inches (142-147 cm). The design is meant to be worn with around 6.3 inches/16 cm of negative ease, but you can choose the fit you prefer. There’s also optional bust and waist shaping included in the pattern if you want to make it even curvier.

This is considered an advanced beginner or intermediate project because of all the skills involved, but it’s sure to be a lot of fun even if some of these techniques are new to you.

Grab a copy of the pattern for yourself form Bea Creative Knits on Etsy. 

[Photo: Bea Creative Knits]