Easy Crochet Fingerless Hand Warmers Worked in the Round

Hand warmers are a tube with a hole for the thumb, and this pattern makes that hole without any sewing. You crochet a tube of double crochet from the wrist up. At the thumb, one round of slip stitches stays low over 8 stitches, and the next round jumps across them with a chain. That leaves a neat opening, and you carry on up to the knuckles.

It's one of Elise's beginner winter projects on her lilthings channel.

Video tutorial by Elise on her YouTube channel, lilthings: watch "❄️crochet beginner gloves | winter accessory crochet, fingerless hand warmer" on YouTube.

Written from the video tutorial.

Materials

• 5-ply milk cotton
• 3.0 mm hook
• A stitch marker, scissors and a darning needle

Sizing

Chain 40, or enough to slide over the widest part of your hand (across the knuckles, with your thumb tucked in). Join the chain into a ring with a slip stitch, taking care not to twist it.

If you change the number of chains, use the same number of stitches in every round.

Pattern

Start each round with a chain 2 and close it with a slip stitch into the first stitch.

Rounds 1 to 9 (wrist): 1 dc in each chain or stitch. (40)

Round 10 (bottom of the thumbhole): slip stitch loosely over the first 8 stitches. These are the thumb stitches: they add no height. Then chain 2 and work 32 dc around the rest.

Round 11 (top of the thumbhole): chain 5 and skip the 8 thumb stitches, then work 1 dc in each of the 32 palm stitches.

Round 12: work dc across the chain-5 bridge and around the palm. To keep the glove the same width as the wrist, work 8 dc into the bridge, bringing the round back to 40.

Next 3 or 4 rounds: 1 dc in each stitch until the glove reaches your knuckles. Try it on as you go.

Border: finish the top with a shell or ruffle edge, as Elise does; for example, [skip 1, 5 dc in the next stitch, skip 1, slip stitch in the next stitch] around, if your count divides by 4.

Make a second glove the same way: it fits either hand.

Tips

• Don't twist the ring. Lay the chain flat with the bumps all facing the same way before you join it.
• Loose slip stitches in round 10 matter. Tight ones pull the bottom of the thumbhole in and it pinches.
• Mark the thumb stitches. Put a marker on the first and eighth stitch in round 9, so you know exactly where the hole starts and ends.

Frequently asked questions