Last month was officially NaKniMitMo, also known as National Knit Mitten Month, and Kat from Just Crafty Enough was naturally in on the fun (though she tells me she might not knit a dozen mittens this year like she did last year).
The pair she made in January is amazing. Known as her Austria Mitts because the colorwork yarn was purchased in Austria, they also feature a design inspired by Austrian textiles and embroidery. They feature flowers and hearts on the back and smaller hearts on the palm and thumb. They look super warm and colorful and like a fun challenge for someone with a few colorwork projects under their belt.
What do you think? Have you knit any mittens this year? I’d love to hear about it.
[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.
I have knit 3 pairs of mittens so far this year, but they certainly aren’t pretty like the mittens featured in your article! Mine were made of bulky weight black merino and were strictly utilitarian. They weren’t exciting to make but the men that got them were pretty darned happy, regardless. 🙂