I made up this pattern for a crohcet class I was to teach for hat, mittens and scarf in crochet. I looked around for just a simple plain easy to follow mitten pattern with no frills. I took what I found and merged them all together with a touch or two of myself.

If you find a mistake please let me know. This is the first time I have written down my own instructions and put them out for everyone to see.

Mittens that fit like a glove
By Angela S. Gonzalez


You will need to make size S/M for women.
1. 1 skein of Cascade 220 wool.
Or yarn equivalent in size, weight and yardage.
2. Crochet hook size J
3. Crochet hook size H
4. Yarn needle for darning
5. 2 stitch markers (the non coiled safety pin style)
6. Ruler

Steps

MITTEN BODY
 With the larger J hook chain 28 loosely yet evenly. This is your wrist edge.
 Join your chain by sl st (slip stitch) in the first loop (total of 28 stitches) and pm (place stitch marker). Be careful not turn your stitches.
 Sl st through the back loop only in all 28 chains for 3 rounds.
 Sc (single crochet) in both stitch loops in all 28 sts. Do not remove your sm (stitch marker, but you do not have to more it up your work either, just leave it be, you don’t need it anymore.)
 Switch to your size H hook
 Sc around till your work is 6 inches from the start chain.
o We are going to make the thumb whole now.
 Chain 5 stitches with the same tension and gauge you have been working in.
 Skip over 5 stitches and in stitch 6 from where you chained your new 5 stitches sc. Continue to sc around till your work measures 9 ½” to 10” (depends on the length of your palm and fingers) from the very beginning.
 Lay your mitten flat so that the thumb opening looks like the side view of mouth. Pm at the half way point of the now top of your mitten. This is where you will start to decrease.
 Sc, skip over a stitch, sc, skip over a stitch = continue this till you come to your marker.
 Move your marker up to the last stitch you just did.
 Sc around in every stitch.
 Move your marker up to the last stitch you just did.
 Sc in the next 2 stitches, skip a stitch, sc in the next 2 stitches = continue to the marker.
 You should have on average 7 stitches left. (For a pointed mitten do one more round of sc in the next 2, skip a stitch till you get to the end. This will give you a very pointy mitten.)
 Cut your yarn with an 8” tail. Fasten off the last stitch and sew through the remaining stitches and draw them tight to form a round top.
THUMB
 Keep an 8” tail
 Begin sc in any of the open stitches for the thumb. Even though in theory you have only 10 stitches to work with you will pick up 14 stitches in total. This is so you do not have a whole space between your thumb and the body and so you have ample thumb wiggle room.
 Sc around all 14 stitches until your thumb measures 2” (average thumb length, you may need to sc an extra row or two).
 Decrease now for the tip of your thumb.
 Sc, skip a stitch, sc, skip a stitch. Continue until you have 6 stitches left. (see the above if you want a pointy thumb)
 Cut your yarn with an 8” tail. Fasten off the last stitch and sew through the remaining stitches and draw them tight to form a round top.
 Weave in your ends and you are done.


 (note: you do not need to move your stitch marker up as you go for this pattern. You will be croshetting in the round without having to join your rounds.)
 Sizing: you have two choices and please us which ever you are comfortable with. 1. Move up crochet hook sizes, I would suggest testing and making an increase only one hook size at a time. 2. Add stitches to your base chain. Check your gauge and increase accordingly.