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This is a simple, mostly double crochet pattern for making arm warmers for those with small hands and tiny wrists. I am petite and typically have to modify patterns for arm warmers and hats or they bag on me so I decided to make my own arm warmer pattern. These are worked in the round. I wrote the pattern as I made them and have not test crocheted the pattern since. Please let me know if you have any trouble or notice errors so that I can correct it. Thanks!

PDF version available for download & printing here. This pattern is also available as a project on Ravelry.

The approximate finished size should be about 7 inches around at the top by the knuckles and 6 1/2 inches at the bottom after the wrist decreases. There is little stretch at the starting chain (near the knuckles) but quite a bit of stretch throughout the rest of the wrist warmer (about an inch or little more in stretch). The finished length is 8 inches.

Supplies:
Size F (3.75 mm) crochet hook
Sock Yarn – Approx. 200 yards give or take a little. The yarn in the picture is Hobby Lobby Yarn Bee Walk Away in the Footsy colorway.
Sewing needle for weaving in ends if you don’t want to crochet them in.

Special Stitches & Abbreviations:
BPDC: back post double crochet – Dc worked around the back post of the stitch. Yarn over, insert hook from the back side of the work right to left around the post of the indicated stitch on a previous row;
yo and pull up a loop (3 loops on hook), yo and draw through two loops (2 loops on hook), yo and draw through two loops (1 loop on hk)
FPDC: front post double crochet – Dc worked around the front post of the stitch. Yarn over, insert hook from the front side of the work right to left around the post of the indicated stitch on a previous row;
yo and pull up a loop (3 loops on hook), yo and draw through two loops (2 loops on hook), yo and draw through two loops (1 loop on hook)
DC Decrease: double crochet decrease – Work a dc in the next stitch without completing the very last step (2 loops on hook), then dc in the next stitch without completing the last step (3 loops on hook), yarn over and draw through all the loops. Decrease made.
Sl. st.: slip stitch
Ch: chain
Dc: double crochet
Yo: Yarn over

Hand:
Ch 30 loosely. Making sure not to twist the chain, slip stitch chain together.
Row 1: Ch3. Dc in each chain. Sl. st. to previous ch3 to close the round. Ch2.
Row 2: Ribbing: BPDC in first DC, FPDC in next DC then BPDC in the following repeating from to the end of the round. Sl. to previous ch2 to close the round. Chain 2.
Row 3: Dc in each dc to end of row. Sl. st. to previous ch2 to close the round. Ch 2.
Row 4-6: Repeat row 3.

Thumb Hole:
Row 7: Turn work rather than continuing in round and dc across to next to last stitch (leaving one stitch in previous round unworked). Ch2. Turn.
Row 8-9: Dc in each dc. Ch2 turn.
Row 10: Dc in each dc. Chain 1. Sl. st. across skipped stitches to first dc and join. Ch2.
Row 11: Return working in the round. DC in each dc then across ch1 joining the round with a sl. st. to top of previous ch2. Ch2.
Row 12-16: Dc in each dc. Sl. st. in top of previous ch2. Ch2.

Wrist Decreases:
Row 17-19: Dc in each dc making 3 dc decreases throughout round joining each round with a sl. st. to top of ch2.

Arm:
Row 20-24: Dc in each dc joining the round with a sl. to top of ch2. Repeat this row for as long as you want your warmers to be. (I didn’t add any more rows to the ones I made in the pictures.)
Row 25: Dc in each dc joining the round with a sl. to top of ch 2. Cut thread and weave in ends.

Now make another one!

In short I have been gardening, building a spinning wheel from recycled and reclaimed materials, painting furniture and votive candle holders, redecorating my bedroom with new curtains and linens, crocheting a huge baby blanket, crocheting washcloths, recovered a chair, repaired a broken floor lamp (it’s still ugly though because I am not done with it), baking pies – apple, blueberry and a cherry goatse pie, and hanging out while the kids splash around in the wading pool. Click the pics to see them larger.

The Ferocious Man Scarf

I finished several fiber projects this weekend but my pride would have to be this scarf I made for my DH per his request. It is based on 200 by John Brinegar (free pattern). I made it a tad bigger since my DH wanted a scarf that was “bigger than the Doctor Who scarf” that his friend is always waving about. Leave it to men to have scarf envy. It was easy to make and was a great project to do while watching TV on a cold day.

John Brinegar has quite a few patterns on his site, so check them out. I will be making more and already have some queued up.

Crochet makes you look feirce. See? :)

I realized that I never posted the projects that I finished through December, so here you go (photo heavy).

The army of monsters for the children…

It’s a week into December now and I am on my way to a Homemade Christmas. I managed to finish several things last night and tonight and I think I will actually complete my goal of handmaking every gift I give this year (of course, Santa brings fabulous toy store goodies). If you are knit and/or crochet and are on Ravelry, feel free to friend me there, I am linuxchic there too!

Here is where I am:

Wrap: Complete! I got hung up making this so it put me several weeks behind schedule. I don’t like to start things until I finish something else (not that I always follow my own rule).