Hand Knit Gloves

This page has a pattern generator (aka program) to create a pattern to help you knit a gloves using a double bed knitting machine. Mine were knit on a Passap, but you can knit them on a Brother, Studio, or Artisan easily, provided you have a ribber. The machine knit version of the pattern, is available here.

You can make your gloves in any nearly any yarn thin enough to permit 4 stitches around your pinkie. Just enter the gauge and head size in the program, and you'll get the pattern you need.

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Characteristics of the mittens:

Knit from bottom up on double pointed needles.
Ribbed Hem.
You may vary size the to fit any hand.
You enter the stitch and row gauge for your yarn.
Knit stockinette. (You can knit these in a two color fair isle or add cables. However, you must introduce those yourself.)

Remember: Like all patterns spit out by my generators, this is mostly shaping directions. The purpose of the generators is to let you be creative, while eliminating the need to do pesky calculations.

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Enter Data for Your Gloves

You must modify the following data to match the gauge and shape you want! Just change the numbers; it recalculates automatically.

Replace My Gauge Swatch Information Your Gauge Swatch Information
Note your machine setting on your directions in pen. You must use the same needles when knitting the swatch and the gloves!
Enter needle size for stockinette swatch:	Child's X-small corresponds to 2-4 year olds. Child's medium is for 7 year olds. Child's X-large is for young teens. The children and adults size ranges overlap. "Adult's medium" fit my medium women's hands, although I'd pick "small" if I liked my gloves to fit snugly; adult large fits men's medium hands. I added the giant range at the request of a visitor. Giant x-small is the same as Adult xxx-large. If you want to be more certain, measure a pair off mittens that fit. Based on your input, my program will make the wrist warmers inches long (not counting the ribbing) and inches measured around the knuckles.
Stitches per inch:
Row count on machine per inch knit:
Size:

Knitting Instructions

Yarn: About 2-4 ounces for women's medium gloves. Two ounces is for the light weight yarns, four is for very yarns.
Furnishings: Two sets of double pointed needles. One in the diameter you used to knit your stockinette swatch. One in a smaller diameter for the ribbing. A tapestry needle, scissors, two small safety pins.

Abbreviations:
Inc 1= increase 1 (You must decide on your method. In this pattern, increases occur on either side of a central stitch. When increasing before the "central" stitch, I knit into the bar of the stitch below the one I already knit. When increasing after the "central" stitch, I knit into the bar of the stich below the one I have not yet knit. This looks symmetric.

Glove

Make 2. (The two gloves are knit identically, except for exactly 1 line in the instructions.)

Rib Cuff: With larger needles, cast on stitches, join, with smaller needles, knit 1 x 1 ribbing in rounds until work measures inches.
Lower Palm:

Change to stockinette and size needles. On next round, increase stitches distributed evenly. (There are now stitches on needles. )
Knit rounds.

Begin Thumb Gusset:

Mark beginning of round with a safety pin or a scrap of yarn. (Leave this here, or carry it up, at least until you work the fingers.)
Knit stitches, inc 1, stitch, k1 (place a safety pin under this stitch to mark it), inc 1, knit stitches.
Knit 1 round without increasing.
Knit up to stitch marked with safety pin, inc1, knit stitch marked by the safety pin, inc1, knit to end of round; knit 1 round without increasing.
Repeat "d" until you have increased a total of stitches. (These, along with the stitch marked by the safety pin, are the thumb stitches.)
Knit up to the thumb stitches. Remove the thumb stitches onto a stitch holder. (I recommend a thick piece of left over yarn; doubling stranded is even better.)
Cast on stitches, and knit the rest of the round. (You now have stitches on the needles).

Upper Palm: Place a row marker to measure length. Knit rounds. (This measures inches from the point where you took stitches off for the thumb.)

Knit fingers:

Row count
finger	thumb	index	middle	ring	pinkie
row count
total stitches

Make sure you are at the beginning of a round; you will now knit the fingers. Note: When you knit your second finger, you will probably need to pick up some stitches that have been cast on when knitting the previous finger. If that little box says "zero", or "one", you will need to do the following fiddly thing to avoid a hole: When you get to an edge, where you have not picked up a stitch from the base of a cast on stich, poke the needle tip into the bar of the stitch-- as though you were going to pick up a stitch. Then, placed that bar on the left hand needle, and knit the bar and the next stitch together. This "seams up" the two fingers without increasing the number of stitches.)
If this is your first glove, knit stitches. (Knit stitches when knitting second glove. This shifts the thumb around relative to the fingers.)
Index finger: The index finger will be knit over the stitches you just knit. Leave the index finger stitches on the needles, place all other stitches on a stitch holder. Cast on additional stitches. (These extra stitches will end up between the index finger and the middle finger.) Knit in rounds until index finger measures inches. (If you like to count rounds, this should match the number in the table above.) Next round, k2 tog across round. Knit 1 round. Next roun, k2 tog. Break yarn and thread through live stitches with a tapestry needle. Pull. Tidy end, and cut yarn. (Index finger complete.)
Middle finger: Remove the next stitches from both ends of the stitch holder and place them on the two separate needles. Pick up stitches from the base on the extra stitches you cast on when you knit the index finger, knit across stitches on one needle, cast on stitches, knit across stitches on next needle. Knit in rounds until finger measures inches. Shape tip as for index finger.
Ring finger: Remove the next stitches from both ends of the stitch holder and place them on the two needles. Pick up stitches from the base on the extra stitches you cast on when you knit the middle finger, knit across stitches on one needle, cast on stitches, knit across stitches on next needle. Knit in rounds until finger measures inches.
Pinkie finger: Take remaining stitches and divide them on the two needles. Pick up stitches from the base of the extra stitches you cast on when you knit the ring finger. Knit in rounds until finger measures inches.

Knit thumb:

Pick up the thumb stitches from string. Pick up an additional stitches from the base of the cast on stitches at the hand edge. Distribute stitches evenly over 3 double pointed needles. Knit until thumb measures inches.
Shape as for a finger tip. Break yarn, take off stitches on this yarn end, and pull tight.

Finish: Tidy loose ends, steam or block as appropriate for you yarn. Wear.
Knit a second glove: This time, reverse the shaping when you do 6b. When making the second glove, take the larger number of stitches for the pinkie off the front bed, and the smaller number off the back bed. (If you prefer, you can also reverse shaping by working the thumb on the right, etc.)