These hand warmers are the first in a series of small items I made using left over aran sweater yarn and accented with scraps of hand-spun yarn. I’m offering this pattern for free at the moment. Following midsummer 2018 I will start charging for it, grab it up while its FREE! Happy knitting!

As it has been noted by various knitters, this pattern is for a fitted woman’s small, please use larger yarns and needles to adjust to the size you want, it is 36 stitches around, if you want to calculate the finished garment size with your gauge to ensure proper fit.

It has also been noted that there is a jog in the knitting where the colors switch, if that bothers you tremendously, color-work in the round might not be for you, but there are things you can do to mitigate it! I’m a bit of a stickler about this too, I placed the jog between snowflakes, so as not to disrupt the image.

You can use this technique to line up the stripes:
https://www.yarn.com/blog_entries/how-to-avoid-a-gap-when...

I personally put the jog right down the inside of my wrist (under my thumb) so it’s less visible, instead of on the back of the hand, where it’s easy to see, at this point that will require you to adjust the pattern, moving the thumb on one of the gloves so that on one it’s at the beginning of the round and one at the end.

The best way to minimize the jarring visual of stripes done in the round is to cut a decent sized tail for each stripe and use it to connect the beginning and the end of each row by tying them together and tucking the ends into the same row, if done properly the knitted piece can basically become a series of concentric circles instead of a spiral. A similar technique is used in crocheting, the beginning of a new round is started with a chain or series of chains(for rounds of taller stitches) instead of the first stitch, then it is worked around and closed with a slip stitch into the first stitch(the chain(s))