I love fingerless gloves. They are my favorite accessory – and also my favorite piece to knit because they offer so many varieties of constructing them. These are knitted flat and in garter stitch. One edge of the row is the thumb and the mitt shaped around it in short rows. The flower pattern is done in intarsia technique. The piece starts with a provisional CO and is finished by grafting in garter stitch. After grafting the side seams are sewn up.

Since this is an intarsia project with three colours that also uses short rows, it can be quite fiddly. It is NOT a beginner pattern.

This document contains

• written row-by-row instructions for knitting a glove in one size (slight adjustments can be made by using a different needle size); the instructions include eight photos of the different stages
• pattern chart
• short photo tutorials for the following techniques: provisional CO with a crochet hook and how to undo it, grafting in garter stitch, short rows with wrap and turn and picking up the wraps intarsia knitting, weaving in yarn while carrying it (backwards and forwards)
• step-by-step explanations with photos of undoing the provisional CO in this pattern (i.e. catching stitches in different colours) and grafting with colour changes

Size(s) and Gauge
I knitted two pairs – one with 2.5 mm needles and one with 3 mm needles - the last picture shows a comparision between the two “sizes”:

• With 2.5 mm needles 28 ridges (56 garter stitch rows) gave me 10 cm in height and 25 sts gave 10 cm in width (with an unblocked swatch, since I didn’t block the mitts). The finished piece knitted with 2.5 mm needles is about 18 cm high (at it’s highest point) and about 16 cm in diameter (without just below the thumb).
• With 3 mm needles 26 ridges (53 garter stitch rows) gave me 10 cm in height and 23 sts gave 10 cm in width (also with unblocked swatch). The finished piece measures about 20 cm in height and about 18 cm in diameter (just below the thumb).

However, the pieces are all in garter stitch, so they are quite stretchy.

As to the name: Blümchen is the German word for little flower.