Easy Fingerless Gloves Free Crochet Pattern Workshop ~ Fingerless Mitts Pattern ~ Easy Crochet

Hey everyone, it's Deja from Knit and Crochet Ever After and I am doing a new tutorial for these Better Half Fingerless Gloves. So this is a pretty simple pattern. We're mostly, actually we are, just doing single crochets. So working in the round, I'm doing a little ribbing for the end of it so you can see this one's on so it's nice and easy to pull on. A little bit Just a little bit of shaping so that You can learn a little bit how to increase, so this is a pretty simple but fun pattern to use up some stock weight yarn. We're going to use a 2.5 millimeter USC hook, so it's a pretty small hook. So if you haven't used this out of your set yet, now's a great time to get started. So any sock weight or lightweight fingering weight type yarn will work and download the pattern in the link below and we will get started. So to begin our fingerless gloves we're going to put a slip knot on our hook and we're going to start with the cuff of the glove. So to do that we're We're going to chain 16, so we'll just yarn over back to front. Pull through your loop already on your hook, and do that 16 times. Just keep them the size of your shaft. They don't need to be super loose or super tight. Okay, I've got my 16 chains. Now it's time to start making the cut. So, we're basically just single crocheting. Most of this pattern is single crocheting. It's just sometimes it's in the back loop. So, for right now, we're just gonna go ahead and skip our first chain that we made. And work into the second chain and do a single crochet. So I'm just grabbing the back loop, you can grab whatever you like on your foundation chain. You can also do a foundation single crochet where you make your single crochet and your foundation chain at the same time. So if you know how to do that and that's familiar you can go ahead and do that. Just make 15 of them because at the end of this row we'll have 15 stitches all together because we skipped that first chain. I'm going to go through and make 15 single crochets across and then I'm going to show you how to keep your fingerless gloves the same size for both gloves. Okay, I've done my last single crochet for row one. Now I'm going to pull out a loop. You can put a stitch marker in here if you want, or you can just pull it out big. Because now what we're going to do to keep our fingerless gloves the same size, if you've seen my wrist warmer tutorial, you know this trick already, but I am horrible at keeping pairs of crocheted items the same size because a fun fact is your mood will change your gauge. So they always tell you to check your gauge throughout your project, especially if it's a large one because if you're happy one day And you're sad the next you might crochet a little bit tighter when you're sad Very strange but true fact, and I do that quite a bit, I change my gauge, I overthink it mostly is my problem, I'll sit there and be like, was I doing it tighter or was I doing it looser? And then I end up messing up everything. So an easy way to keep this even is to stop with your first glove, and you'll see that I have a cake of my yarn, you can also do a center pull ball which I have a video tutorial But if you have a yarn winder, You can make a center-pole cake, so I have, this is just some yarn barf here, so pay no attention to that. But I have the center that I made the first beginning part of my... Fingerless gloves and now I'm taking the outside yarn and I'm going to start my second glove. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to go ahead and chain 16 and do my 15 single crochets of my first row for the second glove. So if I keep alternating every row from one glove to the next My gauge is going to stay the same for that part of the glove. So if I get a little loose tomorrow, they'll both be loose in the same area. So if you have trouble like me keeping them the same size, this is the trick to do. Alternate every single row with the other glove. So now I'm going to do my 16 and my 15 and we'll come back and I'll show you the pattern repeat for the cuff. Okay, so I just finished. the first row of my second glove and what you can do so you don't have to keep dropping and picking up is work the next row of the one that's on your hook and then switch over so you don't have to go one two one two you can go one two two one one two two one like that if that makes any sense anyways this is the pattern repeat that we're gonna do for the entire cuff for both of these so just alternate every single row if you have troubles like me but we're gonna chain one And then we're going to single crochet in the back loop only, so if you have trouble finding the back loop, because when you look at it from the front, it's a little difficult to find the back loop, because it kind of tilts down at a 45 degree angle. So if you turn your work sideways, you can see your V's. Stacking up there so you can easily see that back loop so you want to stick your hook working in that very first stitch Sticky hook right in the center and push down and you'll catch just that back loop actually I kept two loops So make sure you just catch the back loop I actually missed everything all together because I'm trying to see it through my camera instead of the actual stitch so Scratch everything you just saw, and actually head between your first V, head right in the middle, and then push back and down. Now I have just the back loop. My brightness is turned down on my camera, hard to see. So then we're going to yarn over, pull up our loop, and single crochet. So working in the back loop only, we're going to do that for every single row until we get to the end, which I believe is 49. Let me make sure. Yeah, we're going to go 49 rows of this. And it's going to create this ribbed fabric that's good for our cuff. So you can work kind of sideways like I'm doing. Or once you get used to seeing that back loop, you can hold it straight and just kind of tilt it a little. And that will help you pick it up. Once you get a few rows, it's a little difficult to hold on to everything because it's so small right now. But once you get a few rows, it will be easier to work into and hold on to. Just make sure you check your gauge. Beforehand or as you're working, I'm a really bad gauge checker. I'll usually start making projects first and then check my gauge Which is like what you're supposed to do because then you have to rip it out if you're off But if you do it like me check your gauge It's too big you can go down a hook size or you can crochet a little tighter And if it's too small go up a hook. So go to a D three millimeter So, once I get to the end of this row, I'm working in the back loop only, I make sure one thing that you can do, it's pretty easy to lose a stitch when you're doing these. Count your rows as you're going, count your stitches, make sure you have 15, because you don't want your cuff suddenly turning into a triangle. Because if you're not used to seeing, knowing exactly where your stitches go at the beginning and ends of your rows, it's pretty easy to lose one. So double check, count it before you go on. So I've finished those 15, so I drop that, and then pick up this one. Make sure to keep a little record of which, like put glove one, glove two, and then mark off as you're going, because once you get going and you get lots of rows, you might You might forget which one you're on. And then you're going to have to count, sit there and count them, so keep a little tally so it's a little easier to remember where you're at. So now I'm going to do the same thing that I just did with the other glove, so I work in the back loop only. And this is all we're going to do, we're going to turn our work, we're going to chain one, and we're going to work in the back loop only, all 15 stitches, and we're doing that for 49 rows. So this is a good TV project. Or at least the cuff is. Most of it is, but there's a part where you need to pay attention, but that does not come for a while. So go ahead in front of the TV and do 49 rows on each glove, and then head back over here for the next part of the instructions. We're gonna work going. Crochet. I have my nice crochets in. Crochet in my knife. Now we have 22 stitches left till we get back to our seam, so we're just gonna single crochet in every single one of those. And now, for rounds 9 to 10, we're going to do basically the same thing. We're going to single crochet those first 25 stitches, and then we're going to do that same type of increase. Single crochets in one, one single crochet, and then two single crochets. So, I'll go back over it one more time after I do these first 25, and then I'll show you that, and then we'll do the rest of the rounds on our own. The only thing that's gonna change is once you finish the increase over here, you'll have a couple of extra stitches from your previous increase to do all the way until you get to the seam. So you just keep going until you run into your seam, and then you know you're done for that regular single crochet in our next row. Single crochet 25, increase, single crochet, increase, and then single crochet the rest of the round. So if you're working both. The ease of both. End of round. I just finished my glove. You'll see that I have this big kind of increase over here. So you should see the same thing on your glove. It is totally normal. It looks a little strange at first, but once we do the next quite a bit of rounds of single crochet, it's going to curve back. So For round 14 through 23, we're just going to single crochet again. So we have 62 stitches now, with these increases that we've finished. So we're going to just single crochet 62 times. So remember, you chain one, tighten it down, and then insert your hook in that same stitch as the join. And you can see my straight seam right here, pretty invisible. And that's what working back into your slip stitch will get you. So as long as you single crochet in your slip stitch, you'll get that straight seam. So keep on going around all the way through round 23 with just basic single crochet, and then we'll come back and do the next round. Alright, so for round 24, we're actually going to make the thumb hole for our fingerless gloves, and it's going to be the same for both right and left. So the first thing you do is chain one and then single crochet 26 stitches, which is going to put you right near your bump. So the next thing that we're going to do is chain 10 and that's going to create the opening for our normal chains. Don't make them super big because you don't want like Like a really gigantic thumb hole. You could, I guess, but it's not really going to. help you get your thumb through it. The 10 should be big enough. And then what we're going to do is skip 10 stitches. So you look for your V's on the top of your stitches. It's a lot easier to tell than looking at all these little tiny stitches. Turn it sideways. Here's where our last stitch came out of. So that little tiny V is part of our last stitch. So if you pull on it, You'll see a little hole, so don't count that one. I'm going to count one, two, three, four. seven eight nine and ten and then what i'm going to do is i'm going to work into that 11th stitch so i chain 10 skip 10 and then i'm working into the 11th see that we have a hole for our thumbnail a single crochet to the end of our round which is another 26 stitches and then we're going to join and begin the round after which is gonna I'm doing a single crochet, but we need to work around this chain 10, so I have my other chain 10. Let's see, our chain 10 is already done. I've already worked all the way around and joined, and I've also done the 26 stitches of round 25. So now I need to work with the chains. So I don't want to work into the chains. I don't want there to be like little gap-y holes when I'm wearing. So I'm going to work all the way around the chain. So I'm going to reach through the whole thing, yarn over and pull up a loop, and then single crochet that together. I'm going to do that 10 times, which should cover the length of my thumb hole. Marker this to remind me which one is which, so I'll let the other hearing, sorry. And 10. So now you can see that I have a nice, easy, consistent stitch around that hole and i don't have like gaping holes from just working into one or two loops of the chain so then i just need to go and single crochet in the next 26 so you can see my stitch right here is my next stitch so it's a little hard to tell sometimes if you're new but for those little v's in the front right above that is our stitch that we need to work into a join Come back 26 Vs, your stitches, to where you need to put your hook if you're not quite sure where to place it. So, we have finished our thumb hole. Now when we come back around, we'll work into those stitches, just like we're doing here. But we're going to go rounds 26 through 37, just going around and around and around again. Okay, so I finished round 37 and I fastened off the glove. So now all that's left to do is weave in the two ends, and this will be ready to wear. So just weave in those ends however you like. Come back and check out the finished product. They are done. The gloves are ready to wear. They've been all woven in. They can go on either your right or left hand, so that makes it easy to just slip them on and go. Don't have to worry about it. If you have any questions, leave them below, but thank you for watching.