These fashionable knit hats, gloves, and mittens will keep you warm this winter -- or make great gifts. Don’t miss out: Get Martha’s Guide to Knitting— it’s the exclusive resource for knitters of all skill levels.
These fingerless mittens could not be easier to make. Each one is made from plain garter-stitched rectangles, sewn edge to edge to form a tube, with an opening for the thumb.
When you first learn to knit, you feel so pleased with the nubby-textured rectangles that grow on your needles. What to do with them (other than make scarf after scarf)? This girl’s hat is a rectangle folded in half and stitched at the sides. Her cowl is a longer rectangle sewn end to end. Her mother’s fingerless mittens are stitched rectangles.
Knitted cables -- a stitching technique from the 16th century that has become a modern-day fashion obsession -- gives this orange headband (shown on the left) an irresistible twist.
These mittens are straightforward to make (the basic knit stitch is king here), and the pattern is readily adaptable -- just alter the size to suit the wearer.
