One year I decided I wanted to knit everyone (all the women, anyway) in the family fingerless gloves. I think I knit them for my daughter’s teachers, too. There were mitts everywhere, all the time.
I love fingerless mitts because I wear them in the house throughout the winter. They’re great for teachers who have outdoor duty or anyone who gets cold hands. In my experience kids like them better than mittens because they can still use their fingers, but of course they’re not great for playing in the snow.
If you want to knit mitts for everyone this year, check out Mitt the Family from Neisha Abdulla. These DK weight
mitts are worked seamlessly in the round, and they’re sized from toddler to large adult. The stitch pattern even makes them reversible, so you can turn them over if they get stained. As a person who spills coffee a lot that’s a big selling point.
The pattern in all five sizes is available from Ravelry for €2.50 or about $3.08.
[Photo: Neisha Abdulla.]
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.
Looking for more knitting patterns for Mittens? Check these out on Etsy.
I knitted full mitts for the xmas shoeboxes for years. Then my friend accompanied them in the truck from the UK to Rumania. She said fingerless mitts were much prized over full mitts. Though many very poor villagers lived in a state of poverty we’d find unacceptable, many had smartphones so needed fingers free, indoors in unheated homes as well as outdoors, so I make them now. Thanks for these new patterns.