Glacier Fingerless Gloves Knitting Pattern

September 20, 2024 by Sarah White Leave a Comment

The other day I shared a hat knitting pattern that included lace panels and talked about how such a project would be great to wear when it’s not super cold out but you’ve still got a hankering for some knit accessories.

These fingerless gloves give me the same feeling, but for your hands.

The Glacier Fingerless Gloves from Mirella Moments use light or DK weight yarn and are worked in the round form the ribbed cuff up. The back of the hand features an easy eyelet pattern that looks almost like cables thanks to the different decreases used, which lean in different directions.

It’s actually a really easy pattern and a good introduction to lace if you’ve never done it before.

The gloves include a thumb gusset and a little knitting that goes over the thumb, and are also ribbed at the top for a good fit. They come in one size to fit an adult with a 7 inch/18 cm hand circumference. Because of that bit of eyelets they’ll probably stretch a bit to fit different sized hands if needed.

You can grab the free pattern at Mirella Moments. There’s also a matching headband and cowl if you want to make a set for yourself or for a gift, or if you love the stitch pattern you can make all the pieces and gift them to different people. I won’t tell.

There are so many great fingerless glove knitting patterns out there (and they do make great gifts and charity knitting projects) and I have shared a lot of them over the years. Here’s a cute collection of fingerless mitt knitting patterns that might help you boost your skills, as well as a collection full of patterns you can make to use your worsted weight yarn left over from other projects.

[Photo: Mirella Moments]

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Learn All About Ribbing (+ a Free Pattern to Try)

It might sound weird to you, but one of my favorite knitting stitch patterns is ribbing. I find it kind of fun to knit, because it feels mechanical after a while and I don’t really have to think about it, but it makes a texture that’s more interesting than stockinette stitch.

Over at Our Daily Craft I recently wrote a giant post all about knitting ribbing that includes most of what I know on the subject. There’s a fun variation on the cable cast on that is perfect for using with ribbing, tips on how to follow the stitch pattern, binding off in pattern and more.

I even talk about everyone’s least favorite part of knitting ribbing, which is what to do when you have to increase or decrease in ribbing (short answer: it’s going to mess up your pattern but it will also be OK).

I also share a few of my favorite ribbing patterns, because of course it doesn’t have to be knit 1, purl 1 or knit 2, purl 2 all the time. (In fact my favorite is probably 3×3. I find it super fun and love the texture of the fabric.)

You can check out the post all about ribbing here.

And if you’re ready to try an allover ribbed project yourself, check out my ribbed cowl knitting pattern. This one is fun because it starts out being knit flat and ends up in the round, so it opens up over your shoulder for easy wearing but is snuggly as a turtleneck at the top.

This one uses worsted weight yarn and is pretty quick and easy to knit. It’s a good one to try if you’ve never done a project in the round because you don’t have to worry about twisting the cast on since you’ll have already knit flat for several inches before you join. (Of course you could work the whole thing flat and make a seam where you want it to be closed, but knitting in the round is easier.)

Do you have a favorite rib stitch? I’d love to hear about it!

Practice Ribbing with this Hat and Mitt Set

Have You Tried This? Ribbing with No Purling

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