The World's Easiest Wrist Warmers: A Comprehensive Knitting Guide by Kaja Marie Lereng Kvernbakken

Wrist warmers The world's easiest Designed by Kaja Marie Lereng Kvernbakken Photo Kaja Marie Lereng Kvernbakken The world's easiest wrist warmers The pattern for these wrist warmers is super easy: Cast on X stitches on the recommended needle size for your chosen yarn and knit back and forth (= garter stitch) until the wrist warmer reaches around the narrowest part of your wrist, without stretching the fabric. Now you can finish in two ways:

Finishing no. 1:

\* Pick up one stitch from the cast on edge and knit it together with one stitch from the needle. Repeat this step until there are two stitches on the right hand needle. Pull the first stitch on the right hand needle over the last one.\* Repeat from \*-\* until end.

Finishing no. 2: Bind off. Fold the wrist warmer in two and sew the edge together using back stitching.

Thumb opening

If you want an opening for the thumb, you can leave and opening of 3-4 cm, 2-4 cm from the edge. If you're using finishing no. 1, you do this by binding off stitches on the left hand needle until the opening is wide enough, then skip the same number of stitches on the cast on edge and continue knitting stitches together and binding off as before.

But what?

But what is X, you ask? And why can't you just write how many stitches I should cast on? That is because this method can be used with any yarn! If you're impatient to get started, and don't want to know how you can make a wrist warmer that will fit perfectly every time, then skip ahead to the table at the end, it's a cheat sheet where you can find some numbers for the most usual gauges. If you have 5 minutes to spare however, then read on, and discover how to become a garter-stitch-wrist-warmer-ninja in no time!

How to:

x depends on two things: 1. What yarn you're using, and 2. How long you want your wrist warmer to be. On the label of your yarn, it should say how many stitches you'll need for 10 cm, multiply this number by the length you want your wrist warmer to be (measured in cm) and divide this number by 10. vOILA! The number your left with is the number of stitches you should cast on.

Copyright

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be used in any form or by any means without written permission of the designer. The pattern, design and photographs are intended for the personal, noncommercial use of retail purchaser and are under international copyright laws. They are not to be reproduced in any form for commercial use without written permission of the designer. Please contact the designer if you have questions: brev@kajamarie.no Cheat sheet:

Final words:

I've used one selvage stitch in each side. As described by my friend and colleque Stella here. The wrist warmers in the photos are 20 cm long