Evening Jellybeans.

After spending most of my evening feeling unwell and trying to concentrate on uni work I decided I would make myself feel a little bit better by doing some blogging. And better I am! After finding out that my views have gone up from 18 to 23!! Not a big achievement to some but I am chuffed. Regardless of whether you are 23 different people or just one big fan, this post is dedicated to you!

Anyhoo, this post marks the beginning of glove palooza! Where I am the cold does not seem to be going anywhere, so to keep warm you can stay inside and make gloves :D

First we'll start with a nice and easy knitted wrist warmer, perfect for beginner knitters. I knocked these up in a about a day, so a fun and easy way to spend a few free hours.

This is what you'll need. Yarn, thickness and colour of your choice, I'm using a soft lavender acrylic, easy to wash and durable which is great for gloves. I got this yarn for a present last Christmas, and I couldn't think of a project for it, so I'm really excited to be able to use it because its such a nice colour and really soft!  Anyways! (Don't get me started on wools and yarns). You'll need a pair of needles, I suggest using larger ones, I'm using 4 1/2 mm, because they give the gloves a chunky look, which I really like. You will also need something to stitch the work together and weave in the loose ends, I like to use a crochet hook, but you can also using a darning needle if you find that simpler. Oh and a diddy pair of scissors. Ok, lets rock and roll!

Cast on 34 sts 

Row 1: k 4, p 2 all the way to the end.

Row two: p 4, k 2 to end. 

Continue in this fashion until the work reaches the desired length. This envolves a lot of stopping and holding it against your hand. But the actual knitting part of it is pretty much as simple as that! 

This is what it will look like once it is at the length you want. The pattern creates a rib like paneled effect. Weave in all of the lose ends. 

Turn the work the wrong way, (it actually looks pretty nice on this side too!) fold it in half and position your hand on it, then along the edge mark with pins where your thumb is

Like so. 

Then, either crochet or darn the edges together either side of your thumb markers. Turn it inside out once again so its the right way. 

This is what it should look like.

And this is what it looks like on. Cute right? 

So cute in fact that I could not resist embellishing them a little bit. 

I originally planned to make just one of these for the purpose of demonstration, but I have fallen in love a little so the next one is on the needles as we speak. 

 I hope you found this helpful, my beautiful 23! The next glove post will be the next step up from these simple wrist warmers, so stay tuned.