Mittens For Toddlers – FREE Knitting Patterns
I don’t know if it’s just our children, but all of our children have gone through a phase when they haven’t wanted to use any mittens or gloves or anything on their hands, even in the most cold weather.
I guess that is okay on a chilly fall day, but as the days get colder and the snow starts falling, it has been a real struggle to keep our childrens’ hands warm at times.
The mittens that they have accepted the most are mittens that are really simple, like these mittens below.
Basic Knitting Pattern on Mittens For Toddlers
These mittens are knitted on four double-pointed needles and are quite simple to knit.
Link: https://underbartskapad.com/knitting-pattern-mittens-for-kids-1-2-years/
Mittens For Toddlers With A Theme
If you, just like us, have a toddler who doesn’t like to wear mittens, mittens with a theme could be something to try. If your toddler is interested in something specific, mittens with that theme can maybe make them wear mittens.
Our daughters have both of them went through a Frozen face and during that phase everything Frozen-themed was very popular.
When you look around on Pinterest, you can find knitting inspiration on many different themes.
If your toddler likes frozen, here is a link to the mittens above: https://underbartskapad.com/snowflake-mittens-knitting-pattern/
Animal Mittens Knitting Pattern
Another way to make your toddler wear mittens could be through making them look like an animal. When our oldest daughter came out of the frozen phase, she used these hedgehog mittens a lot.
I actually ended up knitting them in a bigger size as well when she grew out of them, just because she liked them so much.
If you think these hedgehog mittens could be something for your toddler, here is the link: https://underbartskapad.com/free-hedgehog-mittens-knitting-pattern/
Mittens For Toddlers – FREE Knitting Patterns
All three of these mittens are quite similar in the way they are knitted. To make the mittens stay on, it’s good to have about4 or 5 cm of an elastic ribbed pattern by the wrist.
Sometimes I use double knit and double purls, and sometimes single knit and single purl. It depends on what kind of design you like for the mittens that you knit.
Apart from that, I also have realized, that the softer the yarn, the more toddlers seem to like the mittens. This differs a lot from toddler to toddler of course, but especially one of our children really can’t stand if yarn is itchy at all.
What kind of yarn you choose for the mittens you knit is of course, up to you. I usually go for a soft merino wool, or if I want a more economic option, there are many acrylic yarns that are soft also.
I hope you will find some good knitting inspiration, and that you will be able to knit a pair of mittens that the toddler you knit for will use a lot.
If you are looking for more knitting inspiration, feel free to look around at the other knitting patterns that we have published on this website. Here is a link that you can follow: https://underbartskapad.com/category/diy-en-en/knitting-patterns-en-en/
And welcome back for more knitting inspiration these coming months.
Many blessings to you.
