Around the Corner Fingerless Gloves

Fingerless gloves are a brilliant accessory for knitters. They are usually a small project and therefore great to try out new techniques and ideas. Plus they are great to show off that beautiful self-striping yarn that has been in the stash for too long and – once finished – provide a lovely piece of colour on dark autumn and winter days.

These fingerless gloves mainly knit flat and in garter stitch – with the exception of the thumb that is knitted in the round right at the start. Since knitting direction is changed a few times, this is NOT A BEGINNER PATTERN.

The pattern PDF is 11 pages long and contains 

• written row-by-row instructions for knitting this piece in one size only – including 7 in-process photos
• an explanation (plus schematics) of the construction, and explanations how adapt the size 
• short photo tutorials for the following techniques: kbf – knit through back and front of a stitch, a stitch that is symmetrical to a kfb, short rows with wrap and turn and picking up the wraps, pick up and knit from a garter stitch edge, crochet CO (at the edge of a knitted piece)

The finished piece measures about 20 cm in height and about 17 cm in circumference (just below the thumb). The picture on the right shows one finished mitt and one just before sewing up the side seams - see also last photo.

To knit these fingerless gloves I used the following yarns: 

• for the ones in the title picture: Zwerger Opal Surprise, Colourway 4061 and a dark grey sock yarn for contrast
• for the pair in the sizing picture: ONline Supersocke 4-fach Nova Color, Colourway 2653 
• for the third pair: Zwerger Opal Blütenpracht, Colourway 54, Mohn Poppy and as a contrast an unknown dark violet fingering yarn