Not too long ago I shared with you the pattern for the women’s Go Team Mittens, and Kat at Just Crafty Enough has come back with a men’s version that comes complete with a University of Michigan theme and a blank chart so you can sport mittens to cheer on any team you like.
When I showed you the other mittens I talked a little bit about licensing of sports logos and images, and I bring it up again only because in the time since I wrote this I saw someone on Facebook who sells hand-painted items with our local mascot on them was being told to stop because she didn’t have a license to produce them. She thought because she was painting them from scratch and wasn’t “copying” anything that she was safe, which is clearly not the case. (Not saying you’ll get in trouble for knitting yourself mittens, of course, I just think copyright law is interesting.)
[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.
