These fingerless gloves are not your rough-and-tumble snow ball throwing kind of gloves, but rather daintier take your-latte-on-the-patio kind of gloves.

To make these you need to be able to read a chart. There are written instructions for those portions best explained with words (the fingers and the wrist cuff actually). The charts (4 of them, one for each side of each glove) are larger than life and quite clear.

The pattern is set up for working on double pointed needles, so if you want to do these any other way you will need to make adjustments. You will need dpns in size 1 and size 2, 2 ring markers, a pin marker, waste yarn and a darning needle.

You need to be able to knit, purl, work in the round on dpns, yarn over, and single decreases (k2tog & SSK) and a double decrease (sl1, k2tog, psso), make one increases leaning left and right, and cast on (both long tail and backward loop) and bind off. And you must be comfortable reading a chart.

There are instructions given for both the longer length fingers shown here in the sample, as well as a shorter finger version that can be seen in my Sock Yarn Fingerless Gloves