Whether you call them wristwarmers, fingerless mitts, fingerless gloves, handwarmers, or armwarmers, these are fast, fun projects and make great gifts. Most patterns for free. Updated 11/11/24
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Free Patterns
Textured Flower Mittens
Fingerless mitts with a flowers with loop stitch petals around a bobble center. 3 sizes. Uses one skein of Fingering weight yarn. Kvitka Designed by Tetyana Vyazovska for Hobbii.
Menelaos Mitts
Fingerless mitts with a zigzag textures worked in knit and purl stitches. Fingering weight yarn. Designed by Simone Bechtold.
Nested Fans Lace Mitts
Wendy Bernard teaches you how to knit fingerless mitts featuring a gorgeous Nested Fans lace pattern in this handy tutorial with downloadable pattern. You’ll learn how to start with a simple ribbed cuff, read a lace chart, shape a thumb gusset and more. SizesSmall (Medium, Large) Pattern and instructional video class available for free with a free trial at Creativebug OR purchase pattern and class individually.
Ida Wrist Cuffs
Arm warmers with stranded and slipped stitch colorwork. Option for crocheted edge. Some knitters used a picot bind off instead. 3 sizes Extra small, Small, Medium. Sport weight yarn. Designed by Sylke Feldhusen.
Waltzing Mitts
These mitts feature an Estonian Double Waterlily Motif and eyelets. Sizes: Women’s Small (Medium, Large). DK yarn. Designed by Jill Bickers
Traveling Cable Handwarmers
Designed by Purl Soho.
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Straightforward Mitts
Mone Dräger’s wristwarmers feature a unique diagonal rib pattern that helps the mitts fit snugly.Finished size: Women’s small to medium, approximately 7” (18 cm) long and 7.5” (19 cm) around the palm, but can be customized for other sizes. Looks great in multi-color yarn! Pictured project by JuanValdez
Beribboned Wrists
Alice Morandi’s design features pretty ribbon lacing. She provides versions for worsted and DK yarn and instructions for adding a thumb gusset to turn them into fingerless mitts. Pictured project by JStockert
Margarete Fingerless Gloves
These fingerless mitts feature an easy flower stitch created with slipped stitches. Designed by Knitting and So on
Fractured Light Mitts
Kirsten Kapur’s wristwarmers start with a garter stitch band and then move to a zigzag lace pattern. Looks great in multi-color yarn. There is also a matching hat pattern on the page.
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Lettuce Knit Arm Warmers
Red Heart designed these lace fingerless mitts. Two sizes.
Linda K’s Yummy Mummy Wristwarmers
Alexandra Brinck’s design features graceful cables and can be knit shorter or longer. Pictured project is by DiannaVB
Enrol
Berroco designed these these simple, stockinette fingerless mittens with a novelty yarn “fur” lining. You can also wear them inside-out for a full fur look.
Elin
Linnéa Öhman’s fingerless mitts feature a romantic lace cuff. The pattern calls for some crochet to neaten up the lace edges but I wonder if you could substitute a knit border.
Patterns for Purchase
Totally Cabled Long Fingerless Mitts
There are two distinct cables in the mitt, as well as one twisted stitch. Instructions are both charted and written out line by line. Designed by Linda Lehman.
Matterhorn Long Fingerless Mitts
There are three distinct cables in the mitts with the center cables forming a diamond pattern.
Twisted Ivy Fingerless Mitts
Approximately 4- 5 inches from your thumb up your arm. They feature twist stitch patterns on both sides of the mitts, with a ribbing center for shaping. (The stitches are both charted and written out ‘line by line”. )
Russell Square Mitts
This fingerless glove pattern features a ribbed body to hug your arms, a frilly top edge for interest, and a row of eyelets to create a wave along the fingertip edge.
Toasties Fingerless Mitts
These mitts are knit in a slip stitch pattern with a 4 row repeat with ribbed cuffs.
Reversible Cable Worsted Mitts
A fantastic super-warm last-minute winter gift, these fingerless mitts knit up quickly from just one ball of worsted weight yarn in just a few hours.
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Fingerless Wraparounds
These fingerless mitts feature an an extra layer of warmth you can remove in milder weather. Knit extra wraps to match your wardrobe! 2 sizes
