Crochet Mitten Patterns: 8 Free Designs
Crochet mitten patterns vary in yarn weight, thumb construction, and the amount of shaping required. These eight original patterns offer a chunky knit look option, a cuff up worsted mitten, a one piece design sized from baby through adult, and a six size pattern with a video for every size.
Stitch markers earn their keep on the mitten patterns that size up through multiple ranges, keeping thumb gusset increases from getting lost.
Crochet mitten patterns to explore
1. 3 Hour Chunky Crochet Mittens
Jess Coppom at Make & Do Crew uses waistcoat, or center single crochet, for a knit like look. It uses two skeins of Lion Brand Wool-Ease Thick & Quick and fits most women’s hands. The waistcoat stitch technique is what gives these mittens their knit like appearance despite being fully crocheted.
2. Basic Crochet Mittens
Amanda Saladin at Love.Life.Yarn works cuff up with the thumb added last. It uses worsted weight yarn and fits an approximately 7-inch hand circumference. Adding the thumb last rather than shaping it into the body keeps the main mitten pattern simpler to follow.
3. One-Piece Crochet Mittens
Briana Kepner at Briana K Designs uses one piece construction without seaming and a knit look stitch. It is an easy pattern sized from baby through adult. Avoiding a seam altogether is a genuine advantage if you find sewing pieces together the most tedious part of a project.
4. Easy Mittens (All Sizes!)
Jo to the World Creations covers six sizes from baby through men’s, uses two hook sizes (an H/5 mm for the mitten and F/3.75 mm for the ribbed cuff), and includes a video tutorial for each size. Two hook sizes in one pattern lets the ribbed cuff sit snugger than the rest of the mitten without switching yarns.
5. Crochet Texting Mittens
Left in Knots adds a small slit at the palm and thumb so your pointer finger and thumb can slip free for a phone screen, using about 165 yards of worsted Red Heart Chic Sheep with an H/5 mm hook. The thumb and finger slit is a practical modification none of the other mittens on this list include.
6. Daddy’s Simply Easy Mittens
Rhondda Mol at Oombawka Design Crochet sizes this one for an adult medium or large hand, about 11.5 inches total length, in chunky or bulky yarn on a 5mm hook, worked cuff to top in one piece with a separately added thumb.
7. Beginner Bulky Mittens
Michelle Moore at MJ’s Off The Hook Designs sizes this one baby through men’s in super bulky number 6 yarn on an 8mm hook, with a double crochet cuff worked in rows then joined before the body and thumb are worked in rounds, finishing in under 30 minutes per pair.
8. Cute and Cosy Mittens
Ling Ryan at Hooked On Patterns works these flat rather than in the round, starting with a ribbed double cuff before building the body in a textured spiked moss stitch, with the thumb crocheted separately and seamed on. They finish at about 4 by 7.5 inches, plus a 2 inch cuff.
