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Glacier Fingerless Gloves Knitting Pattern

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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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Patchwork Blanket Knitting Patterns

Any time of year is a good time for stash busting, but if you can combine it with knitting a blanket that will keep you warm when it (finally!) gets cooler that’s even better. Let’s take a look at some fun patchwork blanket knitting patterns. 

If you want to keep it super simple, you can just make blocks of garter stitch and sew them together, like the beginner’s patchwork baby blanket from Mini Baa Baa or the color block blanket from Make and Do Crew. Both projects are worked in strips and sew together, with the baby version calling for two strands of DK or light worsted weight yarn held together and the larger one using bulky yarn. 

Add a little more texture with the mixed blocks of the cottage quilt throw from Mama in a Stitch. This one combines garter stitch and seed stitch and uses worsted weight yarn. She used a crochet join to make the chains on top of the blocks, but you can join them however you like. It calls for eight colors but you can use what you have, and there are three size options. 

Get a real sampler style patchwork blanket with this design from Knit Sew Make. It calls for worsted weight yarn and has four size options. All of the patterns just use knit and purl stitches so this one is still pretty easy for beginners. 

If you want a more complex colorwork project that will keep you entertained all season, try the Peace by Piece blanket pattern from Needle and Feather. This one is made up of two color colorwork blocks and calls for worsted weight yarn. You can choose to use just a few of the blocks and repeat them more often, or make multiples of the whole set. 

The knitted patchwork recipe from Martine Ellis (free on Ravelry) uses mitered squares in fingering weight yarn, so it’s perfect for using up all your leftover sock yarn and mini skeins. This one is a tutorial more than a pattern so you can make your blanket as big as you like or keep going until you run out of yarn. 

Susan B. Anderson’s 100 Squares blanket (find it on Ravelry) has a lot of mitered squares, too, but they’re arranged in fun ways and includes some quilt inspired designs as well. This one also is a bit of method more than pattern but it sure looks like a lot of fun for using all the leftovers. 

Of course you can totally improvise a patchwork blanket using the yarn and stitches you like, but I hope these patterns inspire you to look at your leftover yarn in a new way.