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Knit Sweet Lacy Mitts with This Free Pattern (Available Through 1/31/15)

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get this free fingerless glove knitting pattern this month onlyI am going through a bit of a fingerless glove phase right now. I just knit two pairs for my daughter and I’m ready to make a bigger version for myself.

But while I’m at it I might also take some time to stitch these cute One-Skein Lace Fingerless Gloves, the free pattern for January 2015 from Sweater Babe.

These mitts use the easy Vine Lace pattern and, as the name says, just one skein of yarn (in fact it calls for about 97 yards, which may be a lot less than a skein, depending on the yarn you choose).

This pattern usually retails for $3, and to get the download you will have to visit the link, copy the coupon code and “buy” the pattern with the coupon code. You’ll also have to sign up as a customer if you aren’t one already, which is admittedly a bit of a pain the first time but as long as you can remember your password it will go a lot faster in the future. And the site offers a free pattern every month so it’s probably worth your while.

Do you have a favorite fingerless glove pattern? I’d love to hear about it.

[Photo via Sweater Babe.]

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  1. I’m in a boot cuff groove, but I did just cast on a pair of fingerless mitts for myself with some of my handspun yesterday (in the 70 degree sunshine, what’s up with that?!). I’m more or less following the Fallberry fingerless mitts pattern from Knitty Winter 2011. Except in my own gauge, lol.

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Embellish Your Knit Dishcloth with Flowers

One great thing to knit when the weather is warm (or honestly any other time) is dishcloths and washcloths. They are fun and easy projects and a great way to play with new skills. Pretty washcloths make cleaning a tiny bit more fun, and they’re great to have on hand as a quick addition to a store-bought gift. 

The Daisy Delight Dishcloth from Yarnspirations is a fun one for using leftover bits of green in your cotton yarn stash. What looks like the bottom in the picture is actually the left side as you knit it, and each little color section is worked with its own ball of yarn, intarsia style. 

That’s a little fiddly for a washcloth, but the effect is cute, and it’s a simple way to learn the basics of intarsia knitting (as well as reading a chart) if you don’t already have those skills. 

One the knitting is done, you add the flowers with a bit of lazy daisy embroidery, which is really easy to do even if you’re not that into embroidery. You could also potentially add flowers in duplicate stitch if you’d rather. 

This may be the most work you’ve put into a dishcloth, but isn’t it adorable? It would be fun to use as a hand towel through the spring and summer, and if you already have some leftover green yarn from other projects it should be pretty easy to do. 

You could also take this same concept and make it different colors. All dark green stems with stars on top might be reminiscent of Christmas trees, or brown with daisy stitch on top in different colors could be trees in the fall. 

However you stitch it, this looks like a fun little project for knitters who are comfortable with intarsia and reading charts or who are ready to try those skills. 

You can grab the free pattern from Yarnspirations. 

[Photo: Yarnspirations]

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