Mini Twist Crochet Mitts Pattern | Beginner Cable Crochet Tutorial (Worked Flat)

Okay, to make these fingerless mitts, we're going to be using worsted weight yarn, and I did a lot in various brands. I did a few in Red Heart. I'm doing the demo in this Lion Brand Wool-Ease. My goal right now is to de-stash. So some of these have... Older labels, they might be partial skeins. This is a great partial skein project. So Wool-Ease in worsted, Red Heart worsted. I'll give other examples on the website where the pattern is. So if you need other options, but anything worsted. This is a fairly easy project. It doesn't have to be super on gauge because you can adjust it so it's mostly for the grip around your hand. If it's feeling a little big just minus a couple of rows and I'll talk about that more later but don't get too stuck on what yarn to use just find a worsted weight. That should be perfectly fine in pretty much any brand. And then for the pattern, I am using a 6 millimeter J hook. So this one is from Furls. I love their resin line just because they are so pretty. Look how pretty that is. And they're super light. They're very comfortable to use. So I'll link this in the description as well if you want to go check these out. They are just A pleasure to work with, but I also love Clover Soft Touch, so I'll give you those links as well, so that different price points, because these are a little bit more expensive, and if you're just starting out, they're not necessary. You can get a cheaper hook to make do, but this one's just really fun to look at while you're stitching, so that's why I use it. And then all, the only other thing you'll need is a needle to weave in your ends. This is a very simple project. The pattern is down below in the description, so go grab that and we'll get started. Okay, to start our little arm warmers, we are going to start with a chain of 25. We don't need it too loose, too tight, just kind of make normal chains. We're joining this at the end, it's worked flat, and then we join it, So it's not going to be super visible on our... foundation chain, so don't worry too much about it. Just get to 25 chains and then we'll start with row one. Okay, I've got my 25 chains and now I'm ready for row one instructions. So in the third chain from my hook, so here's my very first one, here's number two, and here's number three, I am going to do a half double crochet. This skip two chains is going to count as a half double crochet as well. So I'm just going to work into the back loop That'll make it easy for me to join the other side when we put this together and then we're just going to half double crochet across in each chain with that skipped chain two that's counting as a half double we'll have 24 total so 23 actual half double crochets and then one that is a chain two that's always Really important to remember because we work into that stitch on the next row and if you don't your thing will suddenly just start shrinking. So go ahead and do your half doubles and we'll come back for row two. Okay here's my very last chain and my last half double. Now we're gonna start our repeat for the most part. So it's really a two-row repeat that we're going to just keep doing all the way around until we get to the finger hole. But we want to do a chain two to start, and every chain two is going to count as a half double crochet. What that means is we do not work into our first stitch. So if you turn your stitches sideways, I always say look at the Vs. That's your very first stitch. You're not going to work into it because you did a chain two. So we're going to skip to this next stitch, and we're going to work in the... Back loop only. So every half double from here on out, we're gonna be working in the back loop only. So when you're doing that, look at your Vs. You have your front loop that's facing you and the back loop that's away from you. So you're gonna work just into that one single loop. And then we're going to start our cables. So we're doing front post double crochet. And the reason that we're switching to a double crochet is because when we're working it, we're working it down below. If we did a front post half double crochet, it would squish everything down. We need the next size up from our current stitch. So that way it'll come back up to the height of the half double. So with all that said. If you're not used to doing post stitches, this one is a nice easy beginner. What we're doing is we're looking below. So here's the first stitch in the chain two. Those are going up. Then we have our half double of our next one in our second stitch here. Then we have these number three and number four next. So the first thing we're going to do is yarn over. We're going to look for number four. So again, you can go one, two, three, four. I want to work around that whole post. So if I pull it apart, you see two big holes. So I'm going to go in on the right hole, around the back of it, out the other side. Then I'm going to yarn over and pull up a loop. So that gives me my front post because I want it in the front. And then we're going to yarn over, pull through the first two, yarn over, pull through the second two. So I skipped one of my stitches. That's because I'm making a cross. So I'm crossing that way and now I'm coming back to cross this way. So let me yarn over first to get ready. Now I want to go around number three. So here's one, two, three. Pull that apart and see those two big holes that I need to go through. So this one's a little bit awkward because you're going backwards. You're still going to the right side, around the back, and then out the left side. Yarn over, pull up the loop. Yarn over, pull through the first two. Yarn over, pull through the second two. So our next stitch is going to be a half double crochet in the back loop only to separate our cables. This is where you could end up losing stitches, so this is how it really is going to lay. So you can see it looks more crossed over here. So when we're doing this, we want to make sure we're not putting our stitch into one that we should be skipping. So when we made those two post stitches, we technically did not work into the top Loops of our stitches. So if we're not placing this correctly, we're going to lose some stitches by the time we get to the end or kind of add more stitches than we should have. So what we want to do is we want to look at our very next stitch. These are both of our crosses. We'll look at our very next stitch and we want to work into the back loop of that. So you see that there's this loop to choose from and this one to choose from. What you can do, you can kind of come back here and look for those top loops. Here's one, here's two, those are the two that we need to skip. So we need to work into the one that's kind of directly above that next stitch, not to the right, even though it's kind of visible. It's going to go invisible when we finish this stitch because it's going to finally cross over and then it's not there. So this one's going straight up into that. So we are going to do two more cables. So when we do that, here's our stitch here. So we have one post, two posts. So we're going to start with our second post. Go from the right to the left. I yarned over already. Pull up, pull through two, pull through two, and yarn over. Now go back one. Here's the one we just made. Go back one. Pull it apart if you need to. Go to the right, out the left, pull up a loop, off two. Off two, so now we've got two crosses with our one stitch in the middle. We're going to do the same thing. Here's our two. We need to go on that third of these three stitches to join or to do our next stitch, so HDC in the back loop only. Sometimes if I'm feeling not confident, I will stop and I will turn my work around and I'll look to see if I only have two skip stitches. So you can see my two that I skipped there, and then the two that I skipped there. So far, so good. And this is our last cable. By the end of this, you'll be pro at cables, so here's this stitch. One, two, go into number two here, around the back, pull up the loop, pull off two. Pull off two. Yarn over. Back over here. Round the back. Pull up. Off two. Off two. That's the end of the cables. That's the wrist section. Now we're going to be doing the fingers, which is just HDC in the back loop only. So again, we're going straight up here. doing our next half double crochet and it's going to be 14 stitches so that's also how you can help tell you can count backwards from over here make sure you count that chain two so we have one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen and fourteen the first one that i'm working into so you can do that once you finish your cables just to make sure there's those two stitches we skipped But those are a couple checkpoints that you can give yourself if this is your very first cable project and you want to make sure that you're not getting off track as you go. Just count back the 14 and look for those two missed stitches between each of your half double crochets in the back loop only and that will help you. So I'm going to go over here to the end and then we're going to do with our second row of our two row repeat. Okay, here I am at the last two stitches. You have to remember, that looks weird almost, because it looks like we already finished the row. But remember, we have that chain two that we need to work into. So you have to do your last stitch in that chain two. And I need to yarn over first. I'm going to grab two loops of that. And then do your last half double. It looks like you're almost adding a stitch, but once you start your next row, it will kind of even out. It looks wrong, so if it looks wrong, you're doing it right. So that's the tip of the day. If it looks wrong, you're right. Now for our second row repeat, which is a row three, this one's nice and easy. We're just going to chain two, which is going to count as that first half double crochet. And then we're going to half double crochet in every stitch across. So 23 more. So kind of just like row one. So that's all we're doing. We're doing... Cross, then the cables. We'll come back and do the cables one more time together. But we're going to do that until we get to row 10. And then we will make our thumb hole. So I'm going to finish this row and then we'll do some cables together again. And we'll do them kind of normal speed. So you can see how fast you'll be by the time you finish these. Okay, I'm down to my last two stitches. So again, do not forget to work into your chain two on both ends. So that's my 23rd stitch, and then I'm working into my chain two here. And you'll see that that has evened out on this end. Now it doesn't look strange. And on this end, it's looking a little strange. So if you're looking wrong, you're doing it right. So now we're going to do our cables again. We've got the same situation as down below. So we're going to chain two, skip that very first stitch, half double crochet in the second stitch in the back loop only. Then I'm looking for three and four. So here's one, two, three, and four. So I'm going into number four around the back. Then I'm going to go into number three around the back. Then I'm going to half double on the back loop only on number five here. Again, I can look backwards and see the two that I need to skip and work into this guy. It's always kind of like to the left-ish is basically you want to go more to the left rather than to the right when you're looking at those. If you're trying to decide which one to go into. So that one goes with this. So we have one and two. You'll see also right below, here's our cross. It's leading right to that one. Double there. Go backwards and around the one we skipped. And we're going to go over here to our half double in the back loop. Now here's my little thing pointing me to this guy, or one, two. Now when you're working these, one other thing to note is that you have kind of these holes here that you could work into. That's not the ones you want to go into. That's not going to give you a very good post, a good cable look. So you want to go through the really big holes. Don't go into those smaller holes right above it. This will give you more dimension. Those are done. Now I just have 14 half double crochets. And then I'm going to repeat that. I'm going to do the half doubles back in the back loop only and then just keep repeating rows two and three until we get to row 10, which is going to be a cable row, but we're going to put in our thumb hole. So I will come back on row 10 to show you how we are going to do that. Okay, I'm here on row 10 about to do the thumb hole like this one here. Very simple to do. I've already done my cables, so now I just need to do my HDC in the back loop only. So first I'm going to do four HDC in the back loop only. Okay, and then we're going to make the thumb hole by chaining We're chaining four, so we're going to chain four nice and tight. And then we're going to skip the next four stitches. So look for your Vs. One, two, three, four. And then we're going to half double crochet in the last six stitches. One, two, three, four. To finish that off. Okay, so that is the only row with anything different. I'll come back this way just so you can see what we're doing here. So we're going to do of course in the back loop only. When we get to our thumb hole we're going to do the same. We're just going to go into the back loop not work around the entire thing. That way it just gives the same look. So again rather than work around the entire chain we're just going to keep on working in that back loop only as such and then that gives us more of the same kind of look. That we have rather than it wrapping all the way around the chain just looks slightly different looks a little better. So keep on continuing. We are going to go and repeat these two rows until we reach row 18 and then we will join our Wrist warmers. So keep on going. I'll see you at the end of row 18 and then I'll show you how we're going to join these. Okay here I am at the end of row 18 doing my very last stitch. And we're ready to join but first I'm going to talk about if you need to adjust the size of this. You can really move the thumb hole to anywhere you like as long as it's on a cable row so if you want to do that right at the very beginning whatever you like. I kind of put it on the opposite side of the join but if you need to make these bigger or smaller you know depending on your wrist size these are about a seven inch around with the gauge that I've given. But even if you don't want to make gauge or you're off a little bit what you can do is adjust by multiples of two rows so if you need smaller take off the last two rows if you need it bigger add multiples of two rows so that you can adjust the actual circumference to go around your wrist comfortably they do this is unstretched so these do stretch a lot so you probably won't need to change it but just in case that is available so now we are ready to join so we're going to put our right sides facing together and what's funny is i like even the wrong side of this i think it's got a cool look to it so um if you like that side better then Put those two together when you're doing your join. It's pretty reversible. So what we're gonna do is put our right sides facing together, and then we're gonna leave our hook, our loop on our hook, and we're gonna do a slip stitch join. So to do that, we're going to be working under the two loops of this last stitch that we just made. So you can just enter right on in there. And then you're going to join it with the, and make sure you're getting your chain from that other side and not your very first stitch or you'll be one stitch off. And then we're going to enter through that and then pull through both and pull through the loop on your hook. And so essentially we're just doing a big giant slip stitch through everything. Now we're going to go into the next one. So always look for those two Vs at the top for your stitch. This is your chain row. This is the beginning row. I like to get both of those two leftover chains. So the bottom bump and the front loop. And then we're going to do the same. Pull through, pull through on your hook. I'm not tightening it down as I go because I want these stitches to lay pretty flat along the edge. If I sit there and I pull on this and tighten it, it's going to like scrunch up my edge and not make it lay flat because it's making all the stitches super tight and they're going to want to pull that way. So make sure you have a good amount of slack. Not a ton you know but enough that where when you bring it over it's right in line so I'm not you know pulling it and then trying to go in. I have a little bit of slack and then I'm going into the next two pulling through. So you should be able to line these up pretty well so that you can see exactly what you're going through. You should be able to go kind of right through everything easily. And then I kind of pull up here so you can see I kind of pull up and then pull through again to keep that chain kind of big so that way it's not scrunching my edge down. And we're going to do that all the way across for all 24 stitches. So I'll speed this up. When you get here near the end it may look like you only have one stitch left on this side and two on this side. Remember you have those chains so this one here is part of the last normal stitch. And then you're going to go into your chain stitch, just like we did kind of with the first stitch over here on this side. So go through that and go through that last one, pull that, pull that through, and then you're going to fasten off so you can weave in your ends. Okay, once you get your ends woven in, you're ready to turn it right side out. But I just wanted to show you what the actual edge looks like. And if you like this side better, you know, you can flip it around. But if you wanna make them truly reversible, you can do a whip stitch. I'll link to that video. It creates like an invisible seam, which is really cool. But for this, it's just a quick, easy join that you don't have to do anything special. You don't need a needle or anything. But Flip it to the right side out and now you're ready to be nice and comfy for the colder days ahead. But I would love to see what you make. I have all of my socials in the description so go follow and link me so I can see what colors you use. But I am Deja with Knit and Crochet Ever After and thank you for watching!