Midori's Mittens

Knitting
May 2023
Fingering (14 wpi) ?
27 stitches and 36 rows = 4 inches
in Stockinette
US 1½ - 2.5 mm
US 2 - 2.75 mm
140 - 298 yards (128 - 272 m)
6–18 mos (2 yr, 4 yr, 6 yr, 8 yr)
English

Designed by Claudia Q

While these mitts keep tiny hands cosy and warm in cold weather, the adorable lilies and buzzing bees make you look forward to warmer months to come. I named the pattern after my talented friend, Midori, who embroidered all the samples for this book.

The mittens are worked in the round from the cuff up. The thumb stitches are held on waste yarn and picked up from the row below and the row above the waste yarn after the body of the mittens is completed. The top of the mittens is grafted together. Finally, a touch of embroidery is added on the top of each hand.

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SIZES
6–18 mos (2 yr, 4 yr, 6 yr, 8 yr)

FINISHED MEASUREMENTS
Circumference: 4.75 (5.25, 5.75, 6.25, 6.75)“ / 12 (13, 14, 16, 17) cm
Length: 4 (4.75, 5.25, 6, 6)” / 10 (12, 13, 15, 15) cm
Thumb Length (6–18 mos does not have a thumb): – (1.75, 1.75, 2, 2)“ / – (4, 4, 5, 5)

MATERIALS
Yarn: 1 (1, 2, 2, 2) skein(s) of Fingering by Tukuwool (100% wool, 213 yds / 195 m – 50 g), colourway H34 (dusty pink version), 28 (pink version) and 05 (grey version)
Or 140 (184, 222, 276, 298) yds / 128 (168, 204, 253, 273) m of fingering-weight yarn

Needles: US 1.5 / 2.5 mm set of DPNs. US 2 / 2.75 mm set of DPNs

Notions: Removable stitch markers (1 of a different colour for BOR), cable needle, waste yarn in different colour with similar gauge, tapestry needle, embroidery needle, Temaricious embroidery threads: 1 skein each of colourway Indian Matter, Logwood, Indigo and Glory-Bower

GAUGE
27 sts x 36 rnds to 4” / 10 cm on US 2 / 2.75 mm needles in St St, after blocking

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