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Keep Your Hands Warm with Striped Fingerless Gloves

January 2, 2020 by Sarah White

These fingerless gloves, called Oakley and designed by Weiyan Huang, are a really cute design made more interesting with the addition of a couple of stripes.

The model reminds me of Harry Potter house colors but you can use whatever colors you like or use a tiny leftover ball from your stash to make the stripes.

There are three options for sizes and the project uses worsted weight yarn. Even the largest size uses less than 100 yards. The only potentially tricky bit is that the finger holes are all knit individually, but once you get the hang of the small number of stitches it’s easy and worth it to have that extra warmth around your fingers.

She also has coordination poncho, sweater and hat patterns if you want to stitch a whole striped ensemble.

Grab the pattern for $5 on Ravelry.

[Photo: Weiyan Huang.]

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Knit a Garter Stitch Blanket with a Twist

When I first started knitting again after a long absence from the craft (which has now been almost 25 years ago!) I really didn’t like garter stitch that much. I found it super boring, somehow even more boring than knitting stockinette stitch in the round, even though it’s exactly the same thing.

Over the years I’ve softened my opinion, and even grown to like garter stitch. There’s nothing wrong with being plain, and actually the texture of garter stitch is more interesting than stockinette.

Also there are fun things you can do with garter stitch to make it more interesting if you want to, such as adding stripes, working on the bias, or doing fun effects to change the look.

That’s the way with the Bernat Twist My Way Garter Knit Blanket. Using combinations of casting on and binding off creates what they call a Swiss cheese effect along two sides of the blanket. This is a lot of fun in the self-striping ombre yarn they chose for the pattern, but it would also be fun in a solid color or making your own stripes.

Despite the dramatic effect, this pattern is rated easy. It’s worked from side to side (if you consider the “cheesy” edges the top and bottom) and has an eight-row repeat that involves binding off and then casting on again to make the holes. They’re kind of like giant buttonholes.

Once you get the hang of it it’s a pretty easy repeat to remember, and it will be smooth knitting as big as you want to make it.

You can download this pattern from the Yarnspirations website for free, or you can buy a kit direct from them that includes the yarn you need (and knitting needles if you need those, too). Bernat Sport Ombre Twist, which is what is used in the pattern, comes in 12 self patterning colors and is a DK weight acrylic yarn.

[Photo: Yarnspirations]

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