How To Crochet Gloves For Winter With Free Pattern

This crochet winter gloves pattern is perfect for keeping your hands warm while adding a handmade touch to your winter wardrobe. The ribbed slip stitch design gives the glove a stretchy and snug fit, making it ideal for everyday wear.

Crochet Gloves For Winter

This pattern is beginner-friendly, easy to follow, and worked in simple steps from wrist to thumb. You can also add a decorative strip or heart motif for a cute personalized finish. Whether you're crafting for yourself or as a thoughtful winter gift, these gloves work up beautifully with lightweight yarn and a 3 mm hook.

Materials

Lightweight number three yarn
3 mm crochet hook

Glove Base Wrist to Fingers

Make a slip knot
Chain 40
Flip chain and work into back bumps
Skip first loop, slip stitch in second loop
Continue slip stitch across

Rows 2 to 34
Chain 1 turn
Work slip stitch in back loop only
Repeat back loop slip stitches until row 34 is complete

Thumb Opening

Row 35
Chain 1 turn
Make 15 slip stitches in back loop only
Make next 4 slip stitches in back loop
Make 8 stitches using slip stitch with half double crochet method

Thumb Flap

Row 1
Chain 1 turn
Make 8 slip stitch with HDC stitches
Make 4 slip stitches in back loop
Row 2
Chain 1 turn

Make 4 slip stitches
Make 8 HDC stitches
Row 3
Chain 1 turn
Make 8 slip stitches
Make 4 slip stitches
Rows 4 to 10
Repeat previous rows until total 10 rows
Cut yarn leaving long tail

Seaming the Glove

Mark 15 chains from thumb flap edge
Mark 12 chains from other edge place marker on 13th
Thread long tail
Sew 12 chains of thumb flap to glove base to form thumb hole

Decorative Strip Optional

Make slip knot
Chain 6
Insert hook into fourth chain pull up loop continue until 6 loops on hook
Return pass pull through first loop then two loops repeatedly until one loop remains
Forward pass insert hook between vertical bars pull up loops to 6 again
Repeat return and forward passes for 42 rows
Cut yarn leaving tail