Fingerless Gloves with Fingers Knitting Pattern

The world of fingerless gloves contains multitudes, from simple rectangles knit flat with a hole left in the seaming for your thumb to designs with elaborate patterns, thumb gussets, little individual fingers, or all of the above.

The Patons Fingerless Knit Gloves pattern tends a little toward the more detailed of fingerless glove knitting patterns. It’s still worked in a solid color (though of course you don’t have to do that if you don’t want to) but the thumb is almost covered by the knit bit made for it, and there are individual holes for each of the other fingers.

It’s a full education in knitting gloves other than shaping the fingertips. (And if you’re ready to graduate to gloves, check out my collection of sock yarn glove knitting patterns.)

The pattern page says it uses worsted weight wool, but the pattern itself calls for sock yarn, which makes a lot more sense. You could choose a self-patterning or self-striping yarn if you like to make these a little jazzier, or go stash diving to make your own stripes or color blocking as you fancy.

Now would be the perfect time for me to point out that you could easily make each little finger hole a different color. There are no rules here.

The pattern has two sizes for adults large and small, and you could also make them longer if you want to warm your whole upper arm while you keep your hands and fingers snug (though you might need another ball of yarn for that). Talk about cozy.

You can grab the free pattern from the Yarnspirations website.

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[Photo: Yarnspirations]

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If you’re looking for a fun project to play with brioche knitting, check out the My Buddy knitting pattern/recipe from Casuarinagirl on Ravelry.

This project doesn’t include a brioche tutorial, so it’s good to know the basics, including how to increase and decrease, but you can always practice on a swatch before you start the project if you want.

The design is meant to be flexible for the yarn you have and what size and shape of project you want to make, from a skinny neck scarf to a asymmetrical triangle or a more classic triangular shape.

The shape you end up with will depend on how often you increase (and then decrease on the other side). The pattern mentions increasing every fourth, fifth or six row (and the one shown increases and decreases every sixth row) but you can do it even more or less often depending on the shape you’re looking for an how much yarn you want to use.

You can work to whatever depth you would like, or use almost half of the yarn you have set aside for the project and begin decreasing.

When it comes to yarn, she used three strands of yarn held together to make a super fluffy shawl, but you can work it with whatever yarn and needles you like to make a wrap that’s all your own.

If you are new to brioche (or to increasing and decreasing in brioche) it might be a good idea to make a little scarf or head wrap first before diving in to the bigger pattern, just so you’re more comfortable with the technique. Or just give it a go; nothing about brioche knitting is that difficult. (But you might want to use a lifeline because I find brioche hard to rip out or fix mistakes in properly.)

You can grab the free pattern for the Buddy Wrap on Ravelry.

[Photo: Casuarinagirl]

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