Aino, a female name meaning ‘only’ is a character in the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala. She is a beautiful young maiden with a tragic ending, who drowns herself rather than marrying an elderly man. The pattern Aino has been a creation in the making for almost a year and finally made in to a reality during a long and cold night. Aino knits up quickly, with only 60 grams of DK-weight yarn.

Size; Womens M (8, 5 x 23 cm)
Material and yardage:
Schachenmayr Nomotta Juvel, 97m / 50 grams

Colours;
00009 White 48, 50 grams / 95 meters
00210 Dark blue 10 grams / 9, 7 meters

Needles and gauge;

Set of 3 mm DPNs
11 stitches x 15 rows = 5 x 5 cm in stockinette stitch. Please note that you will need the yarn used for swatch to make the mittens out of one skein of main colour.

Special-techniques used:
Two colour-cast on (photo tutorial provided), stranded knitting, Latvian braid, thumb-gusset, Kitchener stitch

Other material;
Waste yarn for thumb, yarn-needle for weaving in ends. Optional; two stitch markers.

This is a charted pattern with written instructions