Product description

Alexis Winslow’s stranded mittens feature graphic arrow motifs scaling their length. Worked in a firm, 2-color fabric, the mittens are both warm and refined. Instructions have been included to allow the wrist length to be customized for a shorter or longer mitten. Choose two colors with a high value contrast for a bold, graphic effect as shown, or lessen the contrast for a more understated look.

Designer: Alexis Winslow

Collection: Wool People, Volume 2

 

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Arrowhead Mittens

Graphic Colorwork

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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)
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  • Product description

    Alexis Winslow’s stranded mittens feature graphic arrow motifs scaling their length. Worked in a firm, 2-color fabric, the mittens are both warm and refined. Instructions have been included to allow the wrist length to be customized for a shorter or longer mitten. Choose two colors with a high value contrast for a bold, graphic effect as shown, or lessen the contrast for a more understated look.

    Designer: Alexis Winslow

    Collection: Wool People, Volume 2

     

  • Pattern materials

    YARN

    • 1 skein in each color of Brooklyn Tweed Loft (100% American Targhee-Columbia Wool; 275 yards/50 grams)
    • Photographed in colors Postcard (BC) & Pumpernickel (DC)


    Note: A second pair of mittens can be made with leftover yarn, if colors are reversed.


    YARDAGE

    • Fingering weight wool yarn in the following approximate amounts: 145 yards of Background Color (“BC”) and 110 yards of Dominant Color (“DC”)


  • Pattern specs

    CONSTRUCTION

    • Mittens are worked circularly from wrist to fingertip, after the completion of the Twisted Hem (worked flat); The top of each mitten is decreased, then gathered with yarn tail to close.
    • A side thumb gusset is shaped as you work the first half of mitten; when the target number of thumb stitches have been reached, you will place these stitches onto waste yarn and resume knitting remainder of mitten.
    • You will return to the held stitches to work Thumb separately.


    GAUGE

    • Working & Finished Gauge: 34 stitches & 40 rounds = 4″ in circular colorwork pattern; before and after blocking


    NEEDLES

    Size A needle:

    • One set of DPNs (or long circular, if knitting with Magic Loop Method) in size needed to obtain gauge listed above
    • Suggested Size: 2¼ mm (US 1)


    FINISHED DIMENSIONS

    • 7½” hand circumference (not including thumb gusset), 11″ long from base of hem to fingertip (with adjustable length instructions provided at wrist)


    SIZES

    • Average Adult Female; to fit hand circumferences 6¾ – 7½”


    Please note: the stitch patterns in this garment are charted only.

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