Knitted Fingerless

It's spring, I know. The time of mittens and warm gloves is over. It's time to enjoy the sun, the breeze, the rain, and especially the fragrances of blooming trees. But it's still quite cool in the evening, and that's why these fingerless gloves might come in handy. Also, if you smoke. That, I never do!

I used 70 % wool 30 % polyacryl yarn originally meant for socks. The polyacryl makes the yarn more durable, and of course cheaper. These yarns were leftovers from the socks and mittens I knitted as Christmas presents for my friends and family members. The knitting needles were size 3 1/2.

These were made just like mittens, except for decreasing the stiches in the end. Also, instead of knitting thumbs I just bound off the increased stitches for the thumb (totalling 10 or 12 according to size), created four new stitches and decreased them gradually towards the end.  That's how there's enough room for the hand.

Red-black ones I made for myself

The red-black ones rolled from the rim, because I just bound off straight after knitting knit-wise for a while. The blue-black ones I finished with knitting one knitwise, one purlwise, like in the beginning, and then binding off.

Blue-black ones are for my daughter