Product description

Get ready for winter fun with bright, warm mittens and a matching cap. The Pinwheel set can be customized to any taste—work it in a binary palette or go exuberant with a paintbox of hues; add cords and pompoms to snug the cuffs and decorate the hat or keep them simply unadorned. The mittens are given in a single child’s size; the hat pattern is written in small and large children’s sizes. Knit in Loft and charted separately for two colors or five colors, Pinwheel is a good choice for those new to stranded colorwork or for veterans with a stash of remnants to use up.

Designer: Véronik Avery

Collection: Kids 1

 

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Pinwheel

Colorwork Hat & Mitten Set

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Loft 2-ply Woolen-Spun Fingering Weight
$18.75 / 275 yards ($0.07/yd)
Loft 2-ply Woolen-Spun Fingering Weight
$18.75 / 275 yards ($0.07/yd)
Loft 2-ply Woolen-Spun Fingering Weight
$18.75 / 275 yards ($0.07/yd)
Loft 2-ply Woolen-Spun Fingering Weight
$18.75 / 275 yards ($0.07/yd)
Loft 2-ply Woolen-Spun Fingering Weight
$18.75 / 275 yards ($0.07/yd)
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  • Product description

    Get ready for winter fun with bright, warm mittens and a matching cap. The Pinwheel set can be customized to any taste—work it in a binary palette or go exuberant with a paintbox of hues; add cords and pompoms to snug the cuffs and decorate the hat or keep them simply unadorned. The mittens are given in a single child’s size; the hat pattern is written in small and large children’s sizes. Knit in Loft and charted separately for two colors or five colors, Pinwheel is a good choice for those new to stranded colorwork or for veterans with a stash of remnants to use up.

    Designer: Véronik Avery

    Collection: Kids 1

     

  • Pattern materials

    YARDAGE

    Fingering weight wool yarn in the following approximate amounts:

    • Version I (two colors): 175 yards each of Colors 1 & 2 (C1 & C2)
    • Version II (five colors): 95 yards each of Colors 1, 2, 3, 4, & 5 (C1, C2, C3, C4, & C5)


    YARN

    Brooklyn Tweed Loft (100% American Targhee-Columbia wool; 275 yards/50g):

    Version I (two colors):

    • 1 skein each of C1 & C2
    • Photographed in colors Truffle Hunt (C1) and Sweatshirt (C2)


    Version II (five colors):

    • 1 skein each of C1, C2, C3, C4, & C5
    • Photographed in colors Fossil (C1), Faded Quilt (C2), Thistle (C3), Sap (C4) and Truffle Hunt (C5)


  • Pattern specs

    CONSTRUCTION

    • Hat is worked circularly from the bottom of the stranded colorwork portion upwards. 
    • Garter stitch brim is picked up from the stranded colorwork portion and worked down.
    • Twisted cords are added to each ear flap, and may be added to mittens’ cuffs.
    • Optional pom-poms may be added to the top of hat and to free ends of twisted cords.


    GAUGE

    • 28 stitches & 35 rounds = 4″ in circular stranded colorwork from chart with Size A needle(s), after blocking


    NEEDLES

    Size A (for Main Fabric):

    • 16″ circular and one set of double-pointed needles (DPNs)* in size needed to obtain gauge listed
    • Suggested Size: 3½ mm (US 4)


    Size B (for Cuffs and Brim):

    • 16″ circular needle and one set of DPNs* two sizes smaller than Size A
    • Suggested Size: 3 mm (US 2½)


    *32″ circular needle can be used instead of DPNs if using the Magic Loop method for working small circumferences in the round.


    FINISHED DIMENSIONS

    • Mittens (one size): 7¼” circumference at palm; 8½” length from cuff to tip
    • Hat: Small (Large); to fit 2-4 years (6-10 years); 17¼ (20½)” circumference; 6¼ (6¾)” length (not including earflaps)


    Please note: the stitch patterns in this design are charted only.
  • Techniques

    Tutorials for all special techniques listed below are included in the pattern

    REQUIRED TECHNIQUES

    • Cast on of choice (for 2×2 ribbed fabric)
    • Blocking (Suggested method: Wet-Blocking)


    OPTIONAL TECHNIQUES

    • Long Tail Cast On
    • Grafting (Kitchener Stitch)


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