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Always More Fingerless Glove Patterns

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mitt knitting patternsYesterday my Internet was out, and it’s spotty today, but some Wednesday I want to start doing “what I’m working on Wednesdays,” where I’ll show you what I’m working on and you can tell me what you’re knitting, too.

What I am knitting, incidentally, is yet another pair of fingerless gloves. The Fiber Factor’s first challenge is to “knit your life,” which is pretty darn open to interpretation, an though I’m not really participating in the competition I thought it would be fun to think about what I might knit if someone asked me to make something representing my life. Ann from Mason Dixon Knitting got me thinking of actually trying to knit something in the time the contestants have, which meant I needed something small because my injury put me behind before I began.

So it would be fingerless gloves. Mine are mostly in linen stitch, because I love it and it’s dramatic but easy (which is pretty much my whole knitting style). I’m using some yarn left over from my book that’s coming out in August, which is also my style. I’ll show them off next week.

In the meantime, if you’re mad for fingerless gloves like I am, I’ve been piling up quite a collection of patterns to show you.

The Dottie Mitts from Sneezerville are nice chunky mitts worked mostly in garter stitch with a cable running down the front and a bit of lace edging.

And there are two from Just Crafty Enough: Susi’s Cartridge Rib Fingerless Gloves, which use a ribbing with slip stitches and reverse stockinette for lots of texture; and Kat’s Cat Handwarmers, which have a kitty and a paw on them for extra cute.

 

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Knit a Fish Pouch, for Reasons

I can’t resist a pattern that’s both useful and a little silly, and that’s exactly how I feel about the Rybka pouch pattern from the delightfully named Rat and Sea Witch.

I know you’re going to ask, because I did, too. Rybka means little fish in Polish. (And because you’re also probably going to ask, Rat and Sea Witch comes from people’s attempts to say the designer’s name, Ratasiewicz, which if you say it fast kind of sounds like rat and sea witch.)

It’s easy to make a little fish bag in different sizes to suit your needs. The pattern has specific instructions for an Airpods Pro case and a pencil case, but you could change the length easily to hold more stuff, and change the size in general by working with a different weight of yarn.

The pattern calls for sock yarn and mohair held together to make a fingering weight gauge, but you could try it with heavier yarn and see what size bag you end up with.

Whatever size you make it, this looks like a fun project for holding trinkets or everyday items. The mouth of the fish is the mouth of the bag, and it closes with a drawstring that is also the strap. I wonder, too, if you could make one of these with a small clasp frame that could be the fish’s mouth and then you could just work I cord straps that would attach to the sides of the fish.

I could also see stripes, or fish of different colors to use up your yarn leftovers. How about a sunglasses case with a little loop to attach to your bag? Once you start thinking about all the ways you could use a fish-shaped bag in your life, I think you’ll see that you probably need more than one.

If you make one of these I would love to know how it went!

You can grab a copy of the pattern on Ravelry.

[Photo: Rat and Sea Witch]