This came as a free download from the Ravelry 'all things yarn' website. If you haven't tried browsing the website and you like knitting/crochet/weaving there are hundreds, thousands, millions? of patterns and many of them free. People add their advice wen they try making up the patterns as well.
This is what you get if you download the the pattern;
This is an American pattern, so to translate; about 50g aran yarn and 5mm needles.
Cast on 35 stitches, knit every row until you have 31 ridges on each side.
Sew it up so that the ridges run from top to bottom, but you need to make a gap for the thumb. This means sewing up about 4 inches, leaving a gap of around 1.75 inches and sewing up the remaining 1.5 inches.
I sort of followed the instructions until I found I was going to run out of yarn before I had knitted 31 ridges! I was using something or other from the stash and should have weighed the ball before I started.
My wrist warmers came out with a mere 23 ridges wide; here are my notes;
Now, a Very Handy Hint; if you can contrive it so that the start tail and final tail are on opposite sides, as in the lower piece, you will have a tail at each end to sew it up with. Much easier.
I sewed up the bottom 4.5 inches, left 1.5 inches and sewed the remaining 1.5 inches.
In spite of not having enough yarn to knit all the ridges, the fit is fine - with a larger piece the fit would be more relaxed which might be better.
They are long enough to run quite a way into the cuff of your jacket. I shall definitely be wearing mine,
even if I'm not that fond of the colours.
I find that keeping my wrists warm goes a long way towards keeping my fingers warm.
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