Chunky Fingerless Gloves

During the Christmas holiday's I was a little bored and so I took the most cheerful yarn I could find and started knitting. I always wanted to make fingerless gloves, but never completed a set (or even got halfway). So I decided to give it another go. The result is fabulous if I say so myself. These Voodoo For Me Fingerless Gloves are a dream. They give a hint of colour and happiness when I wear my black coat and are practical to. I always (and I do mean ALWAYS) listen to my iPod when I go to work. If you wear gloves you can't operate the bloody thing. The wheal is touch sensitive, so the fingerless gloves are a dream for that too!


Modelled by Louisa: the Voodoo Gloves

Details(link to Ravelry)
Project Name: Voodoo For Me
Pattern: Voodoo Wrist Warmers by Bonne Marie Burns Craft
Needles: 5.5 mm (US 9)
Yarn: Debbie Bliss SoHo
Amount: 1.2 skeins = 80 m (86.4 yards)


Voodoo For Me gloves...

I adjusted the pattern to include a thumb instead of just a hole.

Instructions:
work on circular needles CO: 32, work in k2, p2 for 13.5 cm (5.5 inch), put 8 sts on needle holder and knit back 1 row on the main section (so instead working in a circle this one row you work back the way you came). Join in the round again and follow the previous row. From now on you will work inside out. Work in pattern for 5.5 cm (2 inch) and cast off.

Put the 8 thumb stitches from stitch holder back on needles, pick up 4 stitches on the section above the thumb so you have twelve stitches on needles. Rejoin yarn and work in pattern (k2,p2) in the round for 2.5 cm (1 inch). Cast off 12 sts. Work in ends at voila: your wristwarmers with thumbs. Easy peasy.

I'll soon make another pair for Louisa, the poor Aussie freezing her b*tt off here in cold cold England...