Woolly Blooms Tipless Gloves
A note from Jenny: I am moving this week so I am reposting this blog from June. We will start a Facebook Knit A Long (KAL) next Thursday with these mitts or the Welted Fingerless Gloves. I’m so excited to start these and will approach all of those fingers with a sense of adventure!
So get your yarn, join the KAL group from our My Sister Knits page, and I’ll see you on Facebook next Thursday!
For those of you who may be wondering, I am not moving out of town!
Woolly Blooms Tipless Gloves are definitely something you should give serious thought to making this summer!
First, they are a small portable project that won’t take up lap space and make you hot!
Second, they look like they are so much fun to make! Each pair is unique and can be personalized by the knitter.
Third, they give us a starting point to try something new and to be creative in a different way.
© Karen DeWitz 2017
The sole daunting element in this pattern is making the fingers but they are only a few rows of knitting in the round using your preferred method. We think the fingers are an excellent learning opportunity and well worth the effort! These little tipless gloves (as opposed to fingerless mitts), with their embroidery embellishment, are so very cute! We think they could become an obsession!
Using one skein of worsted weight yarn and US 4 and 6 needles, they should knit up fairly quickly. Designer Andrea Hungerford loves the tweedy look of Quince & Co Owl or Owl Tweet for these pretty hand warmers.
Some of us at the shop are still a bit daunted by the fingers but we can’t wait to get started! Think of the advantages of having each finger encased in its own little jacket rather than held together in a mitt! The increase in flexibility would be awesome.
Andrea gives us thorough directions to create each finger. A quick check of the Ravelry projects reveals only positive notes about the pattern!
The next thing about these mitts that is so fun is the embroidery embellishment! This is where you can let yourself go and create some magic. There are intentionally no directions other than suggested stitches. Any stash yarn can be used and your imagination and creativity can run wild! Some of us might want to just dip our toes into this part and others will dive in with abandon. We can’t wait to see what you come up with; we’re thinking of having a show and tell in the fall!
Here is a youtube video that shows some basic embroidery stitches and here is one that shows the Lazy Daisy stitch.
This pattern is an exclusive freebie to our customers from Andrea and By Hand Serial. My Sister Knits is the sponsor for their Special Release No. 1: In the Garden digital issue! We will have a few Limited Edition print copies in the shop soon.
We hope to see you in the shop to get your pattern and choose your yarn!
Julie’s Finds
©bythelakeside
These precious leather scissor sheaths will protect 4.5” scissors and smaller from poking holes into project bags, notion bags, or even fingers!