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Hand Knitted Fingerless Glove Tutorial
July 30th, 2010 | 
Author: The first shout out in this tutorial has to go to Vintage Grrl, without her I wouldn’t have been able to make these awesome gloves because she hand spun the yarn for it! How freaking cool is that? Please go visit her blog because she is truly a very skilled and talented lady.
I was so happy when this arrived at my door!
Look at the lovely colours, it reminds me of yummy candy 
This is what it looked like after I balled it. I couldn’t ask for a more “me” colour!
And this is what I made out of half of it… a pair of very frilly fingerless gloves I searched Ravelry for patterns but I couldn’t settle on something that I really liked so I took a very basic lace stitch and made a standard fingerless glove with ruffles ^_^
Now I’m going to try and show you how I made them. Please be kind because this is the first knitting/crochet pattern I’ve ever written so it may make no sense at all. I’m more of a visual person so I prefer to just knit and see if it looks right rather than following patterns to the letter but you girls keep asking for patterns so here goes nothing!
Row 1: Cast on 44 stitches. (please adjust the number according to the size of your wrist and hand)
Row 2: *Knit 2, purl 2* repeat until end of row. Repeat for rows 3-13.
Row 14: *Knit 2, K2tog* repeat until end of row.
Row 15: K1, *K2tog, YO* repeat until 2nd last stitch, K1. Repeat for rows 16-30.
Row 31: Cast off 14 stitches. K1, *K2tog, YO* repeat until 2nd last stitch, K1.
Row 32-42: K1, *K2tog, YO* repeat until 2nd last stitch, K1.
Row 43: Cast off.
You should end up with something vaguely similar to this:
Now fold the left side in half, this will form the finger holes. Fold the right side in half too to make the thumb. Sew together.
You have something like this…
Make a second one. Also make sure you try them on to make sure they fit!
Now let’s crochet some ruffles. I used a very simple stitch to do this…
Single crochet in the first stitch, chain 2, 2xdouble crochet in the same stitch, single crochet in the next stitch etc. Repeat until you’ve gone all the way around the finger and thumb.
You have something like this…
Now you should sew a stitch between each finger. This is optional but I prefer it ^_^
Add some ruffles to the bottom ribbing. This time I just did 3 double crochet into each stitch.
Taaadaaa! And there you have it. Cute lacy fingerless gloves ^_^
Phew! I’m all tired from trying to remember how I made the gloves, next time I have to take more photos while I’m actually doing it and write it down as I go Now go have a look at Vintage Grrl‘s beautiful yarn!
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Awesome gloves, and Ravelry is the best!! I’m hooked on that site…
I looove Ravely too, it’s awesome seeing what everyone else creates!
thanks for the pattern ^^
Oh no! Can you fix them? No problem
Didn’t you wear these to the meeting?
They are really lovely.
I did! Well spotted
This is a lovely pattern! Just a few quick questions. What size needles did you use and what does *YO* mean?
Love the design and thanks!
~Otaku-Duchessa
Thanks very much
I used 4mm needles but you would need to adjust that depending on the size of your yarn. YO means Yarn Over which is a method of increasing the number of stitches. If you Google I’m sure you’ll be able to find some instructional videos showing you the technique ^_^ Let me know if you have any other questions <3
Nope! All is well! Thanks again Miss Violet for this lovely knit/crochet design! It’s been a nightmare scouring Google for a nice handmade knit pattern! Melbourne is not a very warm place! Thanks a million! xx
~Otaku-Duchessa
Aww glad to help! Melbourne is definitely very chilly atm!
These are adorable, I really love that wool.
I might make myself some for winter
Thank you
The wool is gorgeous right? Let me know if you make some!
Congrats on your first pattern! It looks perfect.
Thanks so much Chaudie!
Those are so cute. There are many times when I wish I could knit. This is one of them.
Aww you should learn, it’s really not that hard once you get the hang of it!
Those are adorable! Ruffles are my best friend ^_^ And your yarn sounds really awesome… reminds me to start saving money to invest in a new yarn stash for the winter
Oh yes yarn stash is very important
I left a lot of mine behind but I’m very glad for what’s left now it’s chilly here! I absolutely adore the yarn ^_^
Wow, thanks so much for posting this Violet! It sure looks like a lot of work knitting, then stopping to take pictures and then posting all this up. I love the yarn color and the final product is adorable!
It is quite a bit of work but I think it’s mostly you get into a rhythm and then have to stop and start
Hopefully it’s worth it though! I’m so glad you liked it, the yarn is amazing!