IV Cover Crochet Pattern (Fingerless Gloves)

If you like crocheting for others, you’ll love the 2025 Donation Crochet Series. This month’s free crochet pattern for donation can double as an IV cover OR a fingerless gloves pattern! Grab your hook and some worsted weight yarn and let’s make some!

IV Cover Crochet Pattern

For the June installment of the 2025 Donation Crochet Series we are making IV covers/Fingerless Gloves. If you or someone you love has ever been in the hospital or has had an IV inserted in their hand for any length of time, you know that the tubing can get cumbersome and annoying, and wrangling them all together is a great thing. Enter the IV cover crochet pattern!

No matter if the person is hanging out in the hospital during recovery or at home with nursing professionals, keeping the tubes and leads at or near the IV insertion point nice and tidy makes a huge difference in the overall mood of the patient.

This IV cover is great for patients of all ages. Before making a bunch of these covers for your local hospital or long term care facility, make sure to give them a call and check that they are in fact currently accepting such donations, and to ask if there is a specific size needed.

If your local hospital or other facilities are not accepting IV covers, this would be a great fingerless glove pattern! Super fast and super easy, just like we like them. 😉 If you crank a bunch out, these would be a great FAST donation item to crochet for your local women and children’s shelter. They’ll be perfect during the colder months.

These are basically rectangles of varying sizes that we then fold and seam into a tube, leaving a space open for the thumb. Does that sound too easy? Because it is!

Materials:

Worsted weight acrylic yarn (Brava Worsted pictured)
-approx. (10, 15, 30, 40, 55) yards

Crochet hook in size H/5mm

Gauge: 13 sts x 8 rows = 4” square using Double Crochet in BLO

Pattern Notes:

Pattern written using US terms.

For this pattern we are using Double Crochet in the Back Loop Only (BLO).

BLO = Back Loop Only

It is recommended to use darker colors for the IV covers to donate. Body fluids in an IV will stain light colors easily.

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Sizes: (Infant, Toddler, Child, Small Adult, Large Adult)

Pattern:

Row 1: Fdc-(10, 14, 18, 22, 26) (or (ch-12, 16, 20, 24, 28), dc in 3rd ch from hook and in each to end.

Rows 2 through (8, 12, 14, 16, 18): Ch-2, turn, dc BLO of each st to end. (10, 14, 18, 22, 26)

Construction:

Fold in half widthwise to sl st into a tube. Sl st together for (5, 7, 8, 10, 12) sts, sl st in one side only (leaving a thumbhole) for the next (3, 4, 5, 6, 8) sts, Sl st together for remaining (2, 3, 5, 6, 6) sts.