Christmas Fingerless Mitts Crochet Pattern -

Christmas Fingerless Mitts – Crochet a cute pair of fingerless mitts for Christmas gifts or for yourself. Keep your hands warm while texting or taking a walk.

The Christmas Fingerless Mitts take less than 100 yards of yarn and can be completed in 2-3 hours depending on fast you crochet or how many times you are interrupted! The starting chain is done with a J / 6 mm hook so the back bump is easier to work with. Switch to an I / 5.5 mm hook for round 1.

Christmas Fingerless Mitts

Materials:

Red Heart Super Saver 4-ply yarn (red, white and green) – approximately 80 yards total

I / 5.5.mm hook (J / 6.mm hook optional)

Tapestry needle

Size: 4 ½” w x 7” h

Abbreviations: (US terms)

ch – chain

sc – single crochet

dc – double crochet

sl st – sl stitch

st – stitch(es)

** – repeat stitches between * *

Notes:

Ch 1 at beginning of round does not count as a stitch
Do not turn at the end of a round
To make the mitt longer, add rounds. To make the mitt wider/narrower, add/decrease stitches in multiples of 2
If wanted, start the chain with a J hook so the back bumps are easier to work with and switch to the I hook with Round 1
Each round has 24 stitches
When changing yarn colors, make a seamless color change. Click here for a tutorial on changing yarn colors

Special Stitches:

back bump– click here for a video explaining the back bump stitch

back loop only – click here for a video explaining the back loop only stitch

puff stitch (puff st) – *yarn over, insert hook in stitch, pull up loop, yarn over and pull through 2 loops*, repeat * * 2 times, yarn over and pull through 4 loops on hook, ch 1

Gauge: 4 dc clusters = 3” (see picture round 5)

Instructions

Chain 24 with green and J hook, join to first chain to make a circle. Do not twist the chain

Round 1: with I hook hdc in the back bump of the 1^st chain and each chain to end, sl st to 1^st hdc

Round 2: ch 1, hdc in each st around, sl st to 1^st hdc (not the ch 1) with white yarn (seamless color change). Fasten off green yarn

Round 3: ch 1, hdc in each st around, sl st to 1^st hdc (not the ch 1) with red yarn. Fasten off white yarn

Round 4: ch 1, *2 dc in the 1^ststitch, skip 1 stitch, 2 dc in the next st* Repeat * * around, sl st to 1^st dc (not ch 1)

Round 5-10: ch 1, *2 dc in the space between the next 2 dc* Repeat * * around, sl st to 1^st dc

Round 11: ch 1, *2 dc in the space between the next 2 dc* two times, ch 3, skip the next 2 dc and repeat * * around, sl st to 1^st dc (space for the thumbhole has been created)

Round 12: ch 1, *2 dc in the space between the next 2 dc* two times, 3 dc in ch 3 space, repeat * * around, sl st to 1^st dc with white yarn. Fasten off red yarn.