z. AFL Fingerless Gloves – Geelong Cats, Sydney Swans; How To

AFL Fingerless Gloves – made by a non-sporty fan – me!!! (˵ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°˵)

There are 3 gloves here (left to right):

• (a) dark red and white
• (b) Geelong Cats gloves
• (c) Sydney Swans gloves

However (a) was a trial run and failed to make the cut to be representative of the Sydney Swans colours (so my partner tells me).  I don’t have any specific instructions for (a) but the following instructions are pretty generic.  They will be useful as the basis for many variations of these gloves.

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Geelong Cats Fingerless Gloves (b)

 

MATERIALS, EQUIPMENT, CROCHET STITCH

• yarn: Heritage Mills (100% acrylic) (lovely yarn but sadly, I think this has been discontinued) – with recommended hook size: 4-5mm
• hook used: 4mm, 3.5mm
• Alpine stitch for most of the crochet fabric
• SIZE: med-large

Status: nwt/gwt 0TT -n/a (gift to G.Dodds)

INSTRUCTIONS

Remember to catch non-working yarn as you work.

You can start with any method.  I used chainless foundation single crochet to start.

 

R0/blue: With 4mm & blue, work 30 sts in chainless foundation single crochet.  Join at the end to form a closed circle.
FYI: You can use any method you like to start.

NOTE: Alpine stitch pattern will be formed by repeats of R2-15

R1/blue: dc

R2/white: sc

R3/white: dc, FPdc (into R1)… repeat to end

R4/white: . sc

R5.white: FPdc, dc … repeat to end

R6-9/blue: (Repeat R2-5)

Note: Repeating R2-5 gives the Alpine stitch pattern.

R10-13/white: (Repeat R2-5)

R14/blue: sc

START THUMB HOLE (No longer working in circular rounds)

R15/blue: Continue with the crochet Alpine stitch pattern, but no not join.  We are not working in rounds for thumbhole.

R16/blue: 30 sc (viz. continuing with the Alpine stitch).

R17/blue: Continue with the Alpine stitch pattern.

R18-21/white: Continue with the Alpine stitch pattern.

END OF THUMBHOLE. Join at the end of R21 to continue working in the round.

 

R22/Blue: 30 sc

• Change to smaller 3.5mm hook

R23-25/Blue: (as with R3-5)

Cut & finish with blue yarn

R26-28/White: (like R2-4)

R29/white: crab stitch to finish.

 

THUMBHOLE

Crochet round thumbhole (a few rounds according to taste) for the thumbs. You can also taper off as you go for a better shaping.

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Sydney Swans Gloves (c)

MATERIALS, EQUIPMENT, CROCHET STITCH

• yarn: Paintbox DK (acrylic, from LoveKnitting)
• hook: 4mm, 5mm
• stitch: Thermal Stitch
• SIZE: medium

Status: nwt/gwt 0TT -n/a (gift to Petey)

INSTRUCTIONS

R0/red: with 4mm hook, work 29 stitches in chainless foundation sc. Join at the end to the start as we will be working in the round.

Work in RED & WHITE for wrist, ending with 1 row of red.

After stripes, change to 5mm hook.

Continue with WHITE for 6TS (Thermal Stitch rows) … up to beginning of thumbhole.

(Refer to diagram below)

Continue with TS, use diagram to work the “V” in red.  No not work in round when working the thumbhole (of course).  Join at the end of thumbhole to continue work in the round.

Work one TS (Thermal Stitch row) in the round, after the end of the thumbhole.

Change to the smaller 4mm hook. Carry on as per diagram.  Finish off edges with crab stitch (aka reverse single crochet).

Crochet in thumb bands.

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Red & White Fingerless Gloves (a)

This was originally intended as a pair of gloves in Sydney Swans colours.  But my partner disabused me of that fiction.  So now it is just a pair of Red & White gloves!

MATERIALS, EQUIPMENT, AND CROCHET STITCH

This is worked in pretty much the same way as the Swans gloves above.

• yarn: Heritage Mills (acrylic) – discontinued, as far as I know
• hook: 4mm, 5mm, 6mm
• stitch: Thermal Stitch
• size: S-Med

 

I started off with a 5mm crochet hook and 26 stitches. Also worked in the round.

 

RED & WHITE for wrist, ending with one row of red

Change hook to 6mm and work 6 rows of TS.

 

START THUMBHOLE

Work thermal st in red for 7 rows, joining circle at the end of that.

AFTER THUMBHOLE

Work 3 thermal st rows

Change to 5mm hook. Ctd wth 1 TS row.

Change to 4mm hook, and work  1 TS row.

Crab st to finish edges.

Make thumb bands.

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The End!

 

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