Men's knitting mittens. Schemes and description

2024 Author: Sierra Becker | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-26 03:46

What can you give a dear man: husband, father, son, friend? The most valuable gifts are those that are made with love with your own hands. They reflect the true attitude, all the warmth and kindness that you want to give only to the closest.

In winter, warm and stylish men's mittens made with knitting needles will be a good gift for a strong half of humanity. Consider the features of knitting men's mittens - how to choose yarn, make a calculation and choose a pattern.

How to choose yarn and knitting needles?

Woolen yarn is ideal for winter knitting, it is very warm and windproof. However, one must take into account the fact that it can prick and cause itching on the skin. Natural wool, which does not cause irritation, is usually of very good quality and high cost. This type of wool includes:

• Merino yarn. The thread is obtained from the wool of merino sheep. Products are light, soft and very warm. Merino wool yarn is often used for children's products, as it does not cause skin irritation.
• Alpaca. Alpaca wool is soft and warm, it is rarelysubjected to dyeing, as animal hair has a rich color - from pure white to black.
• Cashmere. This is the undercoat of highland Tibetan goats. Very valuable wool, soft, delicate, warm, but cashmere yarn is not produced in its pure form. Cashmere in different percentages is added to another woolen thread, improving its quality.

Also, men's mittens with knitting needles can be knitted from mixed types of yarn: wool + acrylic or mohair + acrylic. These types of thread are warm, due to natural wool, but non-spiky thanks to acrylic.

Choose the color based on the preferences of the man you want to give a gift to. As a rule, men prefer discreet colors: black, gray, brown, navy blue, khaki.

To knit mittens you will need a set of five stocking needles. For convenience, you can use limiters so as not to "lose" the loops. Choose the size of the knitting needles in accordance with the recommendations on the yarn label or a size smaller - so the mittens will be denser, and therefore warmer. Do not take a larger tool, knitting will be loose and, most likely, the product will blow through the wind.

When the yarn and tool are selected, learn how to knit men's mittens with knitting needles.

Making the calculation

In order to knit mittens for a man, you will need from 100 to 130 grams of yarn.

Necessary measurements for building a pattern:

• Girth of the hand (the widest part of the palm).
• Brush length (to the tip of the middle finger).
• The length of the brush to the tip of the little finger.
• Brush length before startthumb.
• Thumb length.

According to the received measurements, draw a pattern.

How to knit mittens?

After the calculation, we collect the required number of loops and distribute them between four knitting needles. Men's mittens with knitting needles begin to knit from the cuff. It is performed with an elastic band, your choice of 1x1, 2x2 or some other option. The length of the cuff is chosen arbitrarily, as long as it is not too short.

After the cuff, we start knitting the body of the mitten to the thumb. This place can be done with the front stitch, or you can use some kind of embossed or jacquard pattern on the outside of the mitten.

Having tied up to the base of the thumb, you need to leave a place for it. To do this, we will remove the loops, from which the finger will “grow” later, onto a pin or an additional knitting needle. If there are 10 loops on the pin, then you also need to dial 10 loops on the working knitting needle and continue knitting in a circle.

We continue to knit men's mittens with knitting needles until the mitten covers the little finger. From this point you can start decreasing.

The shape of the mittens can be semi-circular or pointed. For the first option, the decrease occurs evenly, by knitting two loops together, for example, every 8 loops.

For a pointed edge, decrease at the end of the second needle and the beginning of the third, as well as at the end of the fourth and the beginning of the first.

The thumb is knitted on three needles in the round. They begin to close when the tip of the thumb remainsone and a half centimeters.

Pattern diagram

What patterns can be applied when creating men's mittens with knitting needles? Their schemes are numerous, but are they all suitable for men? One of the simplest and at the same time suitable for this knitting pattern is pearl (or it is also called “rice”). This is an alternation of facial and purl loops going over each other. The drawing is quite large and embossed.

Jacquard pattern

Do jacquard and men's knitting mittens match? Jacquard schemes contain not only flowers, there are a lot of options for Norwegian ornaments that can suit men.

Jacquard mittens are warmer and denser, as they are knitted in two strands, besides, you can come up with a pattern yourself, and the thing will be truly unique.

Knitting men's mittens with jacquard needles requires accuracy, do not tighten the threads too much so that the fabric is not too tight, but do not leave the weave too loose. Otherwise, when putting on mittens, the broaches will be felt with your fingers.