Polar Fleece Mittens

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These fleece mittens are inexpensive, easy to make and will keep your hands toasty and warm this winter.

You can make these mittens even warmer by using a windblock fleece. The windblock fabric contains a barrier layer within the fleece for more insulation against cold, windy conditions. It is a bit more expensive than regular fleece, but you need very little fabric to make a pair of these mittens.
 

• Hand girth: 9"
• Hand length: 8-3/4"
• Thumb length: 3-1/4"

Children's (enlarge patterns until squares
equal 3/4")

• Hand girth: 6-1/2"
• Hand length: 6-1/2"
• Thumb length: 2-3/8"

Materials Needed:

• 1/4 yard of polyester fleece material
• matching thread
• 18" of 1/4" elastic
• Optional: matching or contrasting
  lycra material

This project courtesy of:
Dawn Rorvik, Research Technician, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA.

Cut:

• 2 of each pattern piece (Important: If the fabric has right and wrong sides, flip the thumb and palm pattern pieces over before cutting the second set of pieces.)
• 4 pieces of elastic, each 4-1/2" long

Click HERE for pattern pieces.

• Mark the dashed lines on the wrong sides of the back and thumb pieces and stitch a piece of elastic along the line, stretching slightly as you stitch.
• With right sides together, match the diamonds and the thumb edges of the palm piece and the thumb.  Sew across the short straight edge and around the thumb, ending at the diamonds.
• With the right sides together, stitch the mitten palm and thumb pieces to the mitten back piece, starting and stopping at the diamonds.
• Finish the bottom edge with either a 1/2" hem or a lycra binding.
• Repeat for the other mitten.