Product description

These pretty mittens are a study in nuance, featuring two pale shades of natural wool, a beautifully subtle striping sequence and a long, shaped cuff for perfect fit. The mittens are made fingerless with an optional flip-top that is held in place with a single button on top of the hand. For a plain mitt version, simply ignore the flip-top section of the pattern.

Designer: Carrie Bostick Hoge

Collection: Wool People, Volume 1

 

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  • Product description

    These pretty mittens are a study in nuance, featuring two pale shades of natural wool, a beautifully subtle striping sequence and a long, shaped cuff for perfect fit. The mittens are made fingerless with an optional flip-top that is held in place with a single button on top of the hand. For a plain mitt version, simply ignore the flip-top section of the pattern.

    Designer: Carrie Bostick Hoge

    Collection: Wool People, Volume 1

     

  • Pattern materials

    YARDAGE

    • Approximately 140 yards of worsted weight wool yarn in 2 colors


    YARN

    • 1 skein of Color A and 1 skein of Color B of Brooklyn Tweed Shelter (100% American Targhee-Columbia wool; 140 yards/ 50g)
    • Photographed in colors Woodsmoke (Color A) and Fossil (Color B)



  • Pattern specs

    CONSTRUCTION

    • Mittens are worked in the round from the bottom up. Optional flip-top is picked up from just below the top ribbing of the hand and worked in the round.
    • Right and Left Mittens are mirror-images of one another with stripe and ribbing colors reversed. Certain sections of Left Mitten pattern will follow instructions for Right Mitten with all colors reversed.


    GAUGE

    • 22 sts & 34 rounds = 4″ in stockinette stitch with Size A needle, after blocking


    NEEDLES

    Size A (for Main Fabric):

    • One set of DPNs in size needed to obtain stockinette stitch gauge listed
    • Suggested Size: 3.75 mm (US 5)


    Size B (for Ribbing):

    • One set of DPNs two sizes smaller than Gauge Needle
    • Suggested sizes: 3.25 mm (US 3)


    FINISHED DIMENSIONS

    • 7.5 (8.5)” circumference at widest point of hand



  • Pattern Updates

    18 December 2013: Version 2.0

    Page 4: Under "Flip Top," the first decrease round was missing the Large size instructions and has been corrected to read: 

    Decrease Round 1: With Color B, knit 1, place marker, k2tog, knit 15(17), ssk, place marker, knit 2, place marker, k2tog, knit until 3 stitches remain in round, ssk, place marker, knit 1. You now have 38 (42) stitches and 4 markers on your needles.


    30 September 2011

     Page 4: “Flip Top” instructions have been corrected to say that the thumb gusset appears on the left side of right mitten, palms down.

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