Kat at Just Crafty Enough got a little fancy with her latest mitten creation, called Black & White & Red All Over.
She started out with a simple black and white design but decided they needed a little pop so she added the red. The results are pretty, but require a little more skill and attention than a two-color knit mitt.
She used the red in stranded style but didn’t carry the yarn across all the rounds where it wasn’t needed.
She says of the project:
I won’t lie to you though, knitting with three colors is definitely a little tricker to make look neat. If you don’t want to try it, just knit the red dots white. When the mittens are finished you can go back and duplicate stitch in the red.
Great tip! If you try these, I’d love to hear how they turn out.
[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.
