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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?

Christmas Stocking Knitting Patterns for Your Pets

I’ve shared a lot of Christmas stocking knitting patterns over the years (see posts 1, 2, 3 for example) but what if you want to knit a stocking for a non-human member of your family. If you’re looking for Christmas stocking knitting patterns for your cats or dogs, this is the post for you.

These large paw print stockings are perfect for either dogs or cats, so they’re great to knit if you have both. They are worked in the round using DK weight yarn, and the stocking measures about 17 inches/43 cm from the top to the heel. You can get the pattern from nicolaluke.

The K4 Project has a super cute Kitty Christmas stocking pattern, which is worked in worsted weight yarn. They also have a dog version, or you can buy both and get a discount if you have both dogs and cats to knit for. Both projects have two patterns, showing how to work the stockings flat or in the round.

Put your dog into a Christmas scene with this stocking pattern from ifanhourChild. It shows a dog in a dog house in the snow, and has room for the dog’s name at the top. It’s worked flat using worsted weight yarn and the pattern includes charts for many small and medium dog breeds (there’s a separate listing for bigger dogs) so you can stitch a dog that looks like yours.

Annie’s Woolens has both dog and cat stocking knitting patterns that are worked in worsted weight yarn in the round. You can change up the colors to suit your pet if you want, and they come with an alphabet chart for personalization. Or you can stick with holiday colors and buy a kit to make the dog or cat stocking.

Waiting for Santa Paws is a pattern from Kate Agner on Ravelry that would be cute for a dog or a cat. It looks like a leg with a paw print on the bottom part of the foot and more paw prints running around the top of the leg. This is a great option if you don’t want to mess with a heel turn because it doesn’t have a heel, because dogs and cats don’t have heels so why would their stockings?

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