Inez and I did a personal swap and she had requested a knit hat. I had about 80 yards left from the skein of yarn after knitting the hat, so I decided that I needed to knit up fingerless gloves to match. I made up this pattern to utilize all of the yarn.
Gauge: 5 stitches/inch
Materials: 80-100 yards of worsted weight wool (gloves shown knit with about 80 yards of 100purewool.com Merino Worsted 3 ply)
Needle: US 7 (4.5 mm) or size needed to obtain gauge (I knit mine with US 8, but I knit them very tightly - I'd say anywhere from a US 6-8 would work for this pattern, but check gauge)
These gloves are knit flat and seamed up the side. They knit up quickly, and really look more complicated than they are!
Waffle stitch worked back and forth, beginning with a RS row:
Rows 1 & 2: [K2, p2] to end.
Rows 3 & 4: K all sts.
Repeat these four rows for Waffle Stitch.
Pattern:Cast on 36 stitches
Work waffle stitch for 4 rows (1 complete repeat)
Work 10 rows of stockinette (knit one row, purl one row)
Work waffle stitch for 7 repeats
Work 4 rows of stockinette
Work waffle stitch for 4 rows (1 complete repeat)
Knit 2 rows
Bind off and seam up, leaving a thumb opening. Repeat for 2nd mitt!
Additional information: I didn’t slip my edge stitches, but you can choose to slip the first stitch of each row in order to have a clean edge.
I'd love to know if someone else knits these up. I'm going to try to get this as a Ravelry download (I'm Pugmama on Ravelry, by the way), but I'll link these up to Ravelry regardless.
