Fingerless Gloves
What to do with those single skeins for fingering weight yarn that you just had to have but are not enough for a pair of socks? This pattern is the solution. These fingerless gloves are warm enough to wear outside on those brisk days but light enough to wear indoors to keep those arthritic aches and pains at bay without hampering your fingers. This pattern is written using the 2 circular needles method but for experienced sock knitters, it can easily be adapted for the Magic Loop method by placing a marker between stitch 25 and 26.
Materials: One 50 gram skein of sock or fingering yarn
Size 1 Addi-turbos or other 2.50mm circulars: 2
Yarn needle and 12” length of scrap yarn (for thumb gusset) or flexible stitch holder.
Abbrev:
CO = cast on
Round = Rnd
Knit= k
Purl = p
Stitches= sts.
sl = slip stitch
psso = pass slipped stitch over
k2tog = knit 2 together (decrease)
Begin:
CO 55sts and divide, 25 sts on needle #1, 30 sts on needle #2, join.
Rnd 1: Starting with needles #1; K3, p2 around.
Rnds 2- 25: K3, p2 around
Rnd 26-60: Knit around
Divide for Thumb gusset:
Rnd 1
Needle #1: k3, (p1,k1) in next stitch. (k1,p1) in next stitch, knit to end
Needle #2: Knit
Rnd 2
Needle #1: k3, p1, k2, p1, knit to end.
Needle #2: Knit
Rnd 3
Needle #1: k3, (p1,k1) in next stitch, k2, (k1,p1) in next stitch, knit to end
Needle #2: Knit
Rnd 4
Needle #1: k3, p1, k4, p1, knit to end
Needle #2: Knit
Continue increasing in this manner at thumb gusset until there are 18 knit stitches of gusset between the purl stitches.
Next Rnd:
Needle #1: k3, p1, thread the 18 sts of the gusset onto a scrap piece of yarn and tie loosely (These stitches will be worked later.), CO 4 sts, p1, knit to end
Needle #2: Knit
Next Rnd
Needle #1: Knit
Needle #2: Knit
Next Rnd
Needle #1: k2, sl 1, k1, psso, k4, k2 tog, knit to end
Needle #2: knit
Next Rnd
Needle #1: Knit
Needle #2: Knit
Next Rnd
Needle #1: k2, sl1, k1, psso, k2, k2 tog, knit to end
Needle #2: Knit
Next 15 Rnds both needles: Knit
Then work 10 Rnds: k3, p2.
BO loosely in rib.
Finish Gusset:
Transfer 11 stitches from gusset to needle #1, now transfer the remaining 7 sts onto Needle #2, then pick up 4 sts from CO edge.
Working in Rounds.
Rnd 1:
Needle #1:Knit
Needle #2: Knit
Rnds 2-5:
Needle #1: k1. p1
Needle #2: p1, k1
Bind off loosely in rib. Weave in yarn ends.
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