Looking for a stylish way to keep your hands warm? Making your own crochet fingerless gloves or hand warmers is a fun, quick project that’s highly functional and practical at the same time. I’ve put together 15 free crochet fingerless gloves patterns for you to choose from in this post.
Crochet Fingerless Gloves and Hand Warmers
Crochet fingerless gloves are enjoyable to make and can often be stitched up quickly by both beginning and advanced crafters. Besides being a fun project, fingerless gloves make it easy to keep your hands warm while still being able to type, text, or help your kids tie their shoes!
Plus, when you crochet your own gloves or hand warmers, you can customize them to exactly the style, color, and length you like.
Don’t stop after you make your new favorite hand warmers for yourself, though! Crocheted hand warmers also make excellent gifts. Additionally, they’re perfect for selling at fall and winter craft sales.
Fingerless Gloves Crochet Patterns
From simple and quick, 30-minute crochet fingerless gloves, to granny square hand warmer patterns, to fancier, victorian-style crocheted fingerless gloves, here are a few of my favorite, free options of all styles for crocheting your mitts!
Woodland Mitts
Keep your hands toasty warm with these textured fingerless mitts. Choose your favorite color and enjoy this simple, classic design that’s perfect for autumn outdoor activities.
Yarn weight: Sport
Suggested yarn: Berroco Ultra Alpaca Light
Granny Square Fingerless Mitts
Show off your favorite DK yarns and colors with these granny square fingerless mittens. This airy, granny square pattern will keep your hands warm, but not too hot. They’re great for outdoor activities on brisk fall days.
Yarn weight: DK
Suggested yarn: Stylecraft Batik DK
Easy and Quick Fingerless Gloves
These quick and easy crochet fingerless gloves would make the perfect gift. Work them up quickly with worsted-weight yarn, then add the decorative button for a stylish flair.
Yarn weight: Worsted
Suggested yarn: Lion Brand Wool Ease
Horizon Fingerless Gloves
Make these festive-looking gloves as colorful or as neutral as you like. Either way, you’ll feel cheery with the fun bobble stitches. These mitts make an easy project that you can whip up in just an hour or so.
Yarn weight: Aran
Suggested yarn: Lion Brand Heartland
Mystical Mitts
Here’s a stylish yet simple pattern for crochet fingerless gloves with a thumb. They’re made of a simple, seamed rectangle. Crochet a pair for yourself or give them as a gift!
Yarn weight: DK
Suggested yarn: King Cole Merino Blend
The Bauble Fingerless Gloves
This crochet fingerless gloves pattern uses the bead stitch to give it variety and texture. Don’t worry, if you haven’t done the bead stitch before, there’s a tutorial linked. It’s fun to make and not too tricky!
Yarn weight: Worsted
Suggested yarn: Red Heart Boutique Unforgettable
Crochet Wrist Warmers
This pattern is shared in five sizes, from toddler to adult. Make sure to measure the diameter of the hand to ensure that you choose the correct size. Working half double crochets in the third loop is what gives these hand warmers their texture.
Yarn weight: Worsted
Suggested yarn: Red Heart Super Saver
Mrs. Fitz Wristwarmers
These cozy wristwarmers skip the thumbhole, which makes them super easy to make quickly. For longer wristwarmers, just keep crocheting until they reach your desired length.
Yarn weight: Worsted
Suggested yarn: Malabrigo Worsted
Traveling Vines Mitts Pattern
This intricate hand warmer pattern features vining leaves that travel up your wrists. This pattern is worked in the round.
Yarn weight: Fingering
Suggested yarn: Stroll 75% Fine Superwash Merino Wool, 25% Nylon
Bonny Mitts
These tweed mitts are worked sideways. When you’re finished, you’ll use a slip stitch to form the tube that makes your fingerless mitts. This pattern is best suited to intermediate crocheters.
Yarn weight: Worsted
Suggested yarn: Brava Tweed
Gretel Mitts
These two-tone mitts are worked in the round and are super easy to make. If you can half double crochet and slip stitch, you can make these mitts!
Yarn weight: Medium
Suggested yarn: Lion Brand Feels Like Butta
Criss Cross Fingerless Gloves
This criss-cross stitch, while simple to perform, creates an exciting pattern on these homemade fingerless gloves. Stay warm in style with these textured gloves!
Yarn weight: Worsted
Suggested yarn: Red Heart Super Saver
Honeysuckle Mitts
The herringbone stitch used in this pattern makes a dense fabric that’s excellent for keeping your hands and wrists warm. Even so, it works up quickly and is easy for beginners.
Yarn weight: Aran
Suggested yarn: Paintbox Simply Aran
Ribbed Fingerless Gloves
These quick and easy ribbed crochet gloves are made of single crochets and half double crochets. Use aran yarn or chunky yarn, just be sure to adjust your hook size accordingly (see pattern instructions for details).
Yarn weight: Aran
Suggested yarn: Lion Brand Heartland
Hygge Embroidered Wristies
What says cozy like these colorful, hygge mitts? After you finish crocheting the block that makes up your wristie, you’ll cross stitch the colorful pattern on top. Lastly, you’ll sew your fingerless mitts into a tube, and you’re done!
Yarn weight: Aran
Suggested yarn: Scheepjes Stone Washed XL
Crochet Techniques to Know
FIngergloves gloves can be constructed with a few different crochet techniques – usually by working in the round, or by working back and forth in rows and seaming later.
To make fingerless gloves, you should be familiar with basic crochet stitches like the chain stitch (ch), single crochet (sc), double crochet (dc), half double crochet (hdc), slip stitch (sl st), and treble crochet (tr).
Other popular techniques for crocheting fingerless gloves and handwarmers include working in the round, seaming, and increasing and decreasing.
If you’re new to crocheting or need a little brush-up on your skills, check out our complete guide to learning how to crochet. This helpful tutorial will teach you everything you need to know about the basics of crocheting, from holding your yarn and hook to working with different crochet stitches.
Supplies You’ll Need
Here are the most common tools you’ll need to crochet your fingerless mitts:
- Yarn
- Crochet hook
- Tapestry needle
- Scissors
- Stitch markers
How much yarn do I need for a pair of fingerless gloves?
Most crochet fingerless glove patterns require about two skeins of yarn. However, you’ll want to check your pattern for the precise amount you’ll need before you get started.
What’s the best yarn for crochet fingerless gloves?
Crocheted fingerless gloves can be made with all different types of yarn, from fingering weight to bulky. However, you’ll find that most patterns suggest a worsted or aran weight yarn.
A few popular yarns for fingerless gloves include Lion Brand Wool-Ease and Red Heart Super Saver.
Within the post, I’ve included suggested yarns for each pattern below. However, feel free to substitute for a similar yarn of the same weight. Just make sure to check your gauge to be sure that your gloves will fit correctly.
Tips
Here are a few tips for crocheting your next pair of fingerless gloves.
Choose the right yarn.
Regardless of the pattern you choose for your gloves, it’s important to take note of the suggested yarn for that particular pattern. Check both the recommended weight and the fiber content before deciding on your yarn.
You can always substitute yarns – just be sure to check your gauge and use the same yarn weight for the best results.
Check gauge and pattern size.
Whether you use the suggested yarn or another yarn, it’s always important to check your gauge – especially for projects like gloves that need to be a specific size. If your gauge swatch works up too large or too small, you’ll want to adjust your hook size accordingly.
A number of the patterns below include instructions for multiple sizes of gloves. It’s best to measure your hand to make sure you choose the correct size.
Use a stretchy stitch pattern for the cuff, like ribbing.
You might notice that the cuffs (around the fingers, arm, and sometimes the thumb) of these patterns are usually made of a different stitch pattern than the rest of the gloves. Most often, it’s some type of ribbing. Ribbing helps your mitts to stay snugly on your hand without slipping off.
Try on your gloves as you crochet to check the fit.
One of the benefits of making your own fingerless gloves is that you can try them on as you go to ensure that they fit just right. If the hand portion is too tight or too loose, you can go back and either take out or add a couple of stitches.
Additionally, most patterns make it easy to customize the arm length of your gloves by adding or subtracting a few rows.
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