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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?

A Blanket Knitting Pattern Where Yarn Selection is Everything

Many times when I write these posts I will say something like “you can use any yarn you want” or “this would be a great stash-busting project.” That’s just how my mind works. And my stash, too, since I probably have sweater quantity of two or three yarns at most, but tons of singles and odd balls and leftovers.

Blankets are generally a really good way to use up those bits, but in this case, I think you’re going to want to plan it out a bit better.

Looking at photos of the Color Study Blanket from Purl Soho, it looks like it’s made with two yarns held together, and that block in the center is worked with one of each color from the adjoining sides to make a mixed up color.

But that’s not actually how it’s done. This is three separate colors (four, really, with the neutrals in the corners) chosen form a yarn with an expansive palette so they play off each other. The project calls for a worsted weight superwash wool, which is a great choice for a blanket that’s both warm and washable.

This pattern was originally designed by Laura Ferguson and was updated by Hiromi Glover. It is worked in one piece in garter stitch intarsia, which is a great way to learn the intarsia technique if you don’t already know it. It comes in crib or throw sizes.

Despite the introduction to this post, I am going to go ahead and say that, yes, of course you could do this blanket with scraps or odd balls or even just choose five colors that don’t blend together so easily. But I really do love the look of the color play, and I think it would be worth your time to find colors that play well together to get a similar effect.

This pattern is available for free from Purl Soho.

[Photo: Purl Soho]