Kat at Just Crafty Enough set herself the goal of knitting a pair of mittens each month this year, and she’s taking it easy for July with a pair that uses stripes rather than her usual more complex colorwork.
The Sunset Stripes Mittens are worked with two strands of yarn held together. Sometimes both are the same color; sometimes they are different. This makes for mottled looking stripes that are reminiscent of a sunset worked in bold colors like yellow, orange, pink and purple.
But of course this would be a fun stash-buster if you have little bits of light weight yarn lying around. Just work until you run out of one, then change one of the colors, or mix it up randomly.
[Photo via Just Crafty Enough.]
Jorid Linvik’s Big Book of Knitted Mittens:
45 Distinctive Scandinavian Designs is sure to inspire you to want to knit some fun mittens, whether embellished with classic motifs like birds, hearts, moose and classic colorwork designs or those with a more modern feel liks guitars and skulls, a giraffe, penguins or a turquoise lizard.
The book includes a lot of instructions on how to make your mittens come out right, including a discussion of how different gauges can give you different sizes of mittens (and which mittens can be worked to different sizes for kids and adults). The charts are a little different from others you might have seen in that they show how to divide the stitches on the needles and where to place the thumb.
Looking for more knitting patterns for Mittens? Check these out on Etsy.
