Crochet hand warmers

I love hand warmers, and have a few pairs in different colours and different lengths.
I wanted some that went over my jumper so needed some stretch. I did think to knit some in rib for the stretch but my crochet is better so I needed to figure out how to get stretch with crochet. There is very little give in crochet.

So to combat this I had to turn my work 90 degrees.
The other advantage to working like this is not having to work out how many chain will fit your wrist. Using different yarns and size hooks means always having to do a fit test each time.

So how do you make stretchy wrist warmers? Well it's easy.

Your chain row will be as long as you want the warmers to go down your arm. The ones in the photo just cover the wrist but yours can go to your elbow!

Leaving a long tail of yarn. You need an odd number of chains. Mine was 21 chain.

Foundation row:: chain 2 and sc into the 3rd chain from the hook (ie chain 21). One chain, miss one chain and sc into the next chain (ie chain 19). One chain, miss one chain and sc into the next chain (ie chain 17). Continue to end
Your last sc should go into chain 1, hence chaining an odd number.
Row 1:: 2 chain, sc into the first chain space from the foundation row. One chain, sc into the 2nd chain space of the foundation row. Continue to end.

Continue until you can wrap the warmer snugly around your wrist. Try end having your last stitch on the opposite end to your first chain. Cut your yarn leaving a long tail. You now have enough yarn to sew your warmers together without having to rejoin the yarn. Sew the edges leaving a thumb hole.

You can now stretch your warmers over a jumper to keep the cold out!

Enjoy and happy crochet!
Caz
xxx

Comments

[jayne]

I have no chance in making these unless you want to spend a few days of weeks taching me how to crochet lol !
I do love them though :) TFSx

[jayne]

meant teaching lol !!!

[alexa]

These are very pretty. I have always thought of crochet as being quite loose with lots of gaps inbetween (a bit like lacy knitting!), but if you'd like to run a Total Teginners' Tutorial, you could get me on board!

[Eleanor]

You make this sound easy, what sort of yarn did you use and where can I buy some online? Your stitches look so neat and easy to keep track of, mine end up all woolly and hard to count/see which bit to poke the hook in.
xx

[Lynne V]

Lovely, I wish I could crochet.

[Scrapdolly]

These are really pretty and very practical