Thank you for choosing Glove Genie’s Rainbow Glove for your project! These gloves and mittens are super fun to knit, featuring a rainbow motif that wraps around the hand. The mitten version works particularly well for smaller hands. Hold hands together to make a double rainbow!

You can see the design inspiration video to see the gloves!

Helpful Links
This pattern is supported by video tutorials on YouTube to help guide you through the knitting process:

• Rainbow Gloves Knit-Along Walks through the pattern step by step, excluding the finger section
• Glove Finger Knitting Tutorial Filmed with different yarn, but the finger construction concepts, methods, and order are exactly the same as in this pattern.
• Kitchener Grafting Tutorial Covers the grafting technique used to close the mitten top.

Sizes
To fit palm width: 6.5 (7.5, 8, 8.5, 9, 10) cm
Size guide:
Child 3-5 years (Child 6-8years, Youth/Women’s XS, Women’s S, Women’s M, Women’s L/Men’s S)
Measure your actual palm width at the widest point without adding ease. The pattern includes approx. 1.5cm-2cm ease.

Construction

• The gloves are worked in the round from the bottom up.
• After the cuff increases, the rainbow motif is worked back and forth in flat garter knitting.
• As the rainbow grows, stitches from the cuff are gradually consumed so that the base of the rainbow remains evenly aligned along the top of the cuff.
• The thumb gusset is then shaped while simultaneously working the main part of the glove around the rainbow.
• The upper section of the rainbow is incorporated into the glove.
• The remainder of the glove or mitten is worked in the standard way.
• Once all fingers are completed, both sides of the rainbow are grafted: the rainbow stitches are joined using the Kitchener stitch, and the main part of the glove is joined using the ladder stitch.

Yarns
Jamieson’s of Shetland Spindrift, 4 ply, 100% Pure Shetland Wool, 105m/25g ball
The table below the right shows the yarn requirement for the main colour (MC) which is #105 Eesit.

Sizes (To fit palm width)
Child (3-5 years) (6.5cm) | Gloves 2 balls (113m) | Mittens 1 ball (96m)
Child (6–8 years) (7.5cm) | Gloves 2 balls (136m) | Mittens 2 balls (113m)
Youth / Women’s XS (8cm) | Gloves 2 balls (162m) | Mittens 2 balls (139m)
Women’s S (8.5cm) | Gloves 2 balls (193m) | Mittens 2 balls (158m)
Women’s M (9cm) | Gloves 3 balls (218m) | Mittens 2 balls (193m)
Women’s L / Men’s S (10cm) | Gloves 3 balls (255m) | Mittens 3 balls (232m)

The size of the rainbow is the same for all glove sizes. You would need approx 2m - 9m of the following yarns:
Red: #500 Scarlet, 3g (9m)
Orange: #470 Pumpkin, 2g (8m)
Yellow: #410 Cornfield, 2g (7m)
Green: #790 Celtic, 2g (5m)
Blue:#757 Splash, 1g (4m)
Indigo: #707 Eclipse, 1g (3m)
Violet: #600 Violet, 1g (2m)

Note: Estimates are based on actual samples: a women’s S glove (8.5 cm palm width) and a child aged 3–5 mitten (6.5 cm palm width), with 10% added as a buffer. Weights (g) and lengths (m) are for Jamieson’s of Shetland Spindrift; values for other yarns may differ.

Needles
For Cuff & Rainbow: 2.5mm 80cm circular needles to work with Magic Loop method or size needed to obtain tension.
For Main Part: 2.75mm 80cm circular needles to work with Magic Loop method or size needed to obtain tension.

Note: You can use DPNs, but circular needles make the process easier, especially when redistributing stitches or shifting the beginning of the round. An 80 cm circular needle is ideal for glove projects.

Other accessories
2 stitch markers (3 if you are making sizes 8.5 (9, 10) cm)
Waste yarn to hold stitches
Yarn needle

Tension
10cm x 10cm = 30 sts and 41 rows in stockinette stitch.