Cotton Reel Mittens

Cotton Reel Mittens £

Fun, colourful mittens that can be made either fingerless or with closed tops to keep your fingers toasty warm. They combine traditional stranded colourwork techniques and shaping, with a simple and modern geometric pattern. The cuffs begin with an I-cord edging that creates little loops for hanging or for attaching an optional string, because even grown ups can lose their mittens and you put too much work into these for that! Colourful reels of cotton inspired my friend Natalie’s wonderful dyeing. The colourwork pattern also echoes the shape of the ends of the reels, like the prints I made from them as a child.

Attributes

colourwork, mittens, fingerless mitts, wlk2, in the round

PURCHASING

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Wholesale

If you prefer to purchase a printed pattern, please contact your local yarn store / pattern retailer. If you would like to stock the patterns or books please visit our wholesale page.

Yarn

Full version: 130yds / 118m, fingerless version: 100yds / 92m each of 2 colours of fingering weight (4ply) yarn.

Shown in Yarn Yard Clan(100% merino, 230 yds / 210m, 2.3oz / 65g) in Botanic and Electric for full version and Happy and Doodle for fingerless version.

Needles

US 3 / 3.25mm dpns or long circular(s) for preferred method of working small circumferences in the rnd.

Gauge

36 sts and 36 rnds = 4˝ / 10cm in stranded colourwork.

Sizes

4˝ / 10cm across hand at widest point, full version are 9˝ / 23cm long and fingerless version are 7˝ / 18cm.

Size can be changed by working at a slightly looser or tighter gauge.

Version Information

CottonReelMittens_v.2.2.pdf

The most recent update contained only changes to the layout, the previous version (cotton-reel-mittens.1.2.pdf) is also correct.

PURCHASING

All payments are processed by paypal and payments can usually be made from a paypal account or using your credit card without setting up an account.

Wholesale

If you prefer to purchase a printed pattern, please contact your local yarn store / pattern retailer. If you would like to stock the patterns or books please visit our wholesale page.