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Free Knitting Patterns – Mittens and Gloves

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Free Pattern Friday is here again!

Everyone loves small projects. Socks, washcloths, and of course, mittens and gloves. Tis the time of year, up here in the Northern Hemisphere, to start thinking along those lines. MIttens and gloves make great gifts, everyone can use them, and they’re quick to knit and portable. You can go super easy, and you can be a bit more challenging. You can do everything from stockinette stitch to elegant lace. Fairisle sound like fun? Go for it! Want to try your hand at other colorwork? Mittens and gloves are perfect. And very practical! Practice and learn new techniques. Sounds like it’s right up your alley? I’ve compiled a few free mittens and glove patterns for you to check out.

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

Nice Basic Mitten Pattern here:

 

Easy 2 needle Childrens’ Mittens here:

Colorful Gloves from Knitty.com ( Knitty.com is one of my favorite places to go to find free patterns.)

 Broad Street Gloves

These are really cute child’s mittens

Cuff Up Mittens

Fingerless Gloves

Top Down Mittens

Mittens Interrupted

Fairisle Lopi Mittens

Convertible Mittens

Tons More Free Mittens and Gloves Patterns

Keep on coming back! At knitting.craftgossip.com, you just never know…

Terrye

Jorid Linvik’s Big Book of Knitted Mittens: 45 Distinctive Scandinavian Designs is sure to inspire you to want to knit some fun mittens, whether embellished with classic motifs like birds, hearts, moose and classic colorwork designs or those with a more modern feel liks guitars and skulls, a giraffe, penguins or a turquoise lizard.

The book includes a lot of instructions on how to make your mittens come out right, including a discussion of how different gauges can give you different sizes of mittens (and which mittens can be worked to different sizes for kids and adults). The charts are a little different from others you might have seen in that they show how to divide the stitches on the needles and where to place the thumb.

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Comments

  1. like your site. We are looking for free patterns to make for the homeless.

    Especially fingerless gloves, the long ones in particular.

    Thank You

  2. I have been trying to print the classic Mittens pattern. You only give part of the instructions for knitting the pattern, Will you be correcting this mistake?

  4. Thank you so much for putting together this beautiful site, Terrye.It is much appreciated here in Australia, & I am particularly looking forward to making some new knits by my fireside this Winter season.
    Cheers!
    Miss Marigold

  5. I just found your site,Love it. I am a litter crafter of all kind, right now in love with knitting, for a few years it was jewerly making, and now I will be combinding the two knitting & beading. Love your site for great ideal with new project.

    Thanks for all your work,
    Heda

  6. hi, i love you site. my son work in heating and cooling he need glove that is warm and that has grip for working out door. so if you have a pattern i will appreciated oh by the way i am not to good knitting on 4 needles. thanks for your time and happy holidays.

Have you read?

Book Review: Brooklyn Tweed’s Knit & Crochet Blankets

Blankets are a great blank slate project that you can change up in a million different ways. From color to stitch pattern to size, the possibilities are almost endless.

Jared Flood, the designer behind Brooklyn Tweed, was inspired by a log cabin quilt his mother made in 1995 to re-create that design in knitting, which led to more blankets and ultimate Brooklyn Tweed’s Knit and Crochet Blankets, which includes 25 patterns from an array of designers using different skills and techniques to make cozy, pretty blankets.

The patterns are divided into three aesthetic themes: traditions, minimalism and colorplay. The patterns are rated on a scale of one to five, with one being the easiest, and there aren’t any pieces rated five. Two blankets are rated one, 14 are two, eight are three and one is four. 

In addition, three of the 25 patterns are crocheted, but they either use single crochet or granny stitch, so they are pretty easy even if you don’t do a lot of crochet. You can see all the patterns on Ravelry.

Some of my favorites include Rattan by Rastus Hsu, a chunky blanket worked in knits and purls with simple crossing stitches to make a raised woven look; Homewood by Seth Richardson, covers in dramatic, loopy cables; Ainur Berkimbayeva’s Tessellate, one of the beginner projects that doesn’t really look beginner but is totally worked in knit and purl stitches; Warp + Weft by Aist? Butkevi?ien?, which is mostly knits and purls but makes a fun woven look fabric that blew my mind a little bit; and the same designer’s Canyonland, a multicolored blanket with wavy stripes.

The patterns tell you how to resize them for different dimensions and include information on pattern repeats where it is possible to make a totally custom size.

Many different techniques are included here such as cables, lace, shadow knitting, intarsia and other colorwork techniques, as well as modular knitting and lots of sewing pieces together. The patterns are all presented with charts, but there are line by line written instructions available on the Brooklyn Tweed website if you need them.

The book ends with a deep dive into log cabin knitting, telling the story of the quilt Jared’s mom made and how he made it in knitting, as well as the multitude of variations you can make if you want your own log cabin style design.

The back of the book includes a little written information about some of the special techniques needed, but there are no photos.

This is a lovely book full of inspiration for knitting and crochet blankets for any skill level. If you like to make blankets as gifts or aspire to have a handmade blanket in every room of the house, these designs would be a great place to start.

About the book: 192 pages, paperback, 25 patterns. Published 2024 by Abrams Books, suggested retail price $24.99.

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