lafemmedramatique
11-05-2007, 01:19 PM
My yellow mittens are in the project boards. I put this tutorial in there as well, but I felt that this should be it's proper home.
I wish I had step by step photos to show you all, but really, photos never help me in crocheting anyway!
This does require that you know how to do a single crochet stitch. Beyond that, you just have to be able to make sense of my writing! Oh, and it helps to understand how to connect the end of a chain to the other end to create a round. The learn to crochet episode on here shows how to do that, so go watch it if you're confused!
On to the tutorial!
Make a chain that will fit around your wrist with a little extra. I made mine about 30 stitches, but it will vary with how tight you make your stitches.
Connect the end of the chain and start stiching around and around. You will start to get something that looks like a cuff.
Keep going until the cuff goes up to the base of your thumb. When you get to this point, do a chain of stitches ( I think I did five or so, I can't remember) and then put the cuff back on to see where to connect the chain. Pull the chain over your thumb, hold the spot where you're connecting it, and then take it off and connect the chain...
Keep going round and round.. at any point in this part of the process, if you want to stop, you have fingerless gloves...
Keep going until you get near the end of your mitten, and then when all you've got left is the tips of your fingers, start skipping every other stitch. (Word to the wise: Keep this last part REALLY tight! If you don't, then you'll have holes that your fingers can slip out of!)
When you're finished with this part, tie it off and tuck in the extra yarn.
Then tie the end of your ball of yarn on to your thumbhole, and then start stitching around and around the hole, basically just how you did with the rest of the mitten, only smaller. When you've got it to where it almost covers the tip of your thumb, skip ever other stitch until you close up the thumb. Tie off, and then tuck it in.
That's it, kids! I did do a long chain that I wove through the mitten around the wrist to make it a bit more snug at that part (and so it would have a cute little bow) but things like that are optional... just make the mittens, then add whatever you want to them to make them your own!
Finished project photos!
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y194/spingirl5787/P1010033.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y194/spingirl5787/P1010035.jpg
I wish I had step by step photos to show you all, but really, photos never help me in crocheting anyway!
This does require that you know how to do a single crochet stitch. Beyond that, you just have to be able to make sense of my writing! Oh, and it helps to understand how to connect the end of a chain to the other end to create a round. The learn to crochet episode on here shows how to do that, so go watch it if you're confused!
On to the tutorial!
Make a chain that will fit around your wrist with a little extra. I made mine about 30 stitches, but it will vary with how tight you make your stitches.
Connect the end of the chain and start stiching around and around. You will start to get something that looks like a cuff.
Keep going until the cuff goes up to the base of your thumb. When you get to this point, do a chain of stitches ( I think I did five or so, I can't remember) and then put the cuff back on to see where to connect the chain. Pull the chain over your thumb, hold the spot where you're connecting it, and then take it off and connect the chain...
Keep going round and round.. at any point in this part of the process, if you want to stop, you have fingerless gloves...
Keep going until you get near the end of your mitten, and then when all you've got left is the tips of your fingers, start skipping every other stitch. (Word to the wise: Keep this last part REALLY tight! If you don't, then you'll have holes that your fingers can slip out of!)
When you're finished with this part, tie it off and tuck in the extra yarn.
Then tie the end of your ball of yarn on to your thumbhole, and then start stitching around and around the hole, basically just how you did with the rest of the mitten, only smaller. When you've got it to where it almost covers the tip of your thumb, skip ever other stitch until you close up the thumb. Tie off, and then tuck it in.
That's it, kids! I did do a long chain that I wove through the mitten around the wrist to make it a bit more snug at that part (and so it would have a cute little bow) but things like that are optional... just make the mittens, then add whatever you want to them to make them your own!
Finished project photos!
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y194/spingirl5787/P1010033.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y194/spingirl5787/P1010035.jpg