I have been working on designing my own fingerless gloves pattern for a bit now and have finally completed my first pattern. It is really easy and a lot of fun to make and works up really quicky, only takes me a couple of hours to make a pair.
Maraschino Fingerless Gloves
Yarn Used: Phentex Dynasty (Worsted / 10 ply (9 wpi) ) in Red
Hooks Used: 4.5 mm and 5.0 mm
Other Items needed: Yarn needle to weave in ends
Stitches used: Chainless DC foundation, V-Stitch (DC, Ch1, DC), FPDC, BPDC
Foundation:
With 4.5 mm hook, create a 27 stitch chain less DC foundation then join together to form ring. Leave tail long enough to sew gap together and weave in once completed.
Row 1: Ch 3 then skip next 2 stitches (DC, Ch1, DC) in 3rd stitch. *Skip next 2 stitches then (DC, Ch1, DC) in 3rd stitch*, repeat 6 more times. DC in base of beginning Ch3, Ch1 then join with Slip Stitch to top of Ch3. (9 v-stitch clusters)
Row 2: Ch3, *(DC, Ch1, DC) in Ch1 space* of next v-stitch cluster. Repeat from * to* in next 7 spaces. (DC, Ch1) in last Ch1 space then join with sl st to top of Ch3. (9 v-stitch clusters)
Rows 3 – 4: Repeat Row 2
Switch to 5.0 mm hook
Row 5: Ch3, (DC, Ch1, DC) in next 2 Ch1 spaces, Ch5, skip next v-stitch cluster. *(DC, Ch1, DC) in next Ch1 space*, repeat in next 3 Ch1 spaces. (DC, Ch1) in last Ch1 space then join with sl st to top of Ch3. (8 v-stitch clusters)
Row 6: Ch3, (DC, Ch1, DC) in next 2 Ch1 spaces. Skip next 2 Ch then (DC, Ch1, DC) in 3rd Ch, skip 2 Ch, (DC, Ch1, DC) in next 5 Ch1 spaces, (DC, Ch1) in last Ch1 space then join with sl st to top of Ch3. (9 v-stitch clusters)
Rows 7 – 10: Repeat Row 2.
Switch to 4.5 mm hook
Row 11: Ch3, DC in each stitch around, join with sl st to top of Ch3. (27 DC)
Row 12: Ch2, FPDC in 1st DC, BPDC in 2nd DC, continue
in pattern around. Join with sl st to top of Ch2.
Rows 13 – 15: Ch2, FPDC and BPDC in each corresponding FPDC and BPDC around, join with sl st to Ch2.
Fasten off after Row 15 and weave in end. Use tail to sew gap closed on finger end and then weave in end.
