How to Knit Fingerless Glove With Long Arms
Knit a pair of fingerless gloves for a stylish yet functional accessory. Anyone who can knit and purl can make a pair. Best of all, if you make ribbed gloves, the length is completely customizable. There's no increasing or decreasing, even if you want the gloves to go all the way up your arm, because the stretchy ribbing makes them fit. If you're new to seaming but dream of making a sweater, fingerless gloves are a great way to learn and practice the seaming technique. Does this Spark an idea?
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Things You'll Need
- Worsted-weight yarn
- Size 6 knitting needles
- Darning needle
- Scissors
- Safety pins
Instructions
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Cast on 24 stitches and knit a gauge swatch in knit 2, purl 2 ribbing. Knit until the swatch is 4 inches long, then measure the number of stitches going across in 4 inches. Divide the number by 4 to get your gauge, or your average number of stitches per inch.
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Measure around your arm where you would like the top of the glove to be. Multiply the number of inches by the number of stitches per inch to get your cast-on number.
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Cast on a number of stitches divisible by 4, which may alter your cast-on number slightly. For example, if the number you got in Step 2 is 43, cast on 44 stitches. If you got 34, cast on 32. Because the ribbing is stretchy, one or two stitches more or less won't make a difference.
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Work in knit 2, purl 2 ribbing until the glove is as long as you want it to be. Bind off using the stretchy bind off of your choice.
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Cut the working yarn, leaving a tail twice as long as the length of the glove. Thread the end of the tail through an darning needle.
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To find the thumb opening, wrap the glove around your hand with the edges on the inside of your arm -- in line with your thumb. Insert a safety pin into the edge of the knitting at the top and bottom of the thumb opening. It can be as long or short as you want it to be; you choose how much of your hand to expose.
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Fold your knitting in half lengthwise and use the tail to sew a vertical seam. You are sewing from the hand opening to the top of the thumb. Sew the stitches from left to right, then right to left, changing directions on each row. Line up the stitches and sew underneath the first stitch in from the selvedge edge on each side.
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Weave the tail down the stitches between the two safety pins rather than sewing the sides together. Resume sewing the sides together after the second safety pin. Remove the safety pins.
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Knot the last stitch, cut the working yarn with a 4-inch tail, and use the darning needle to weave the cut yarn back up the inside of the glove. Make another glove for the other hand.
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