Kat at Just Crafty Enough is, apparently, a great lover of projects. She knit a pair of mittens a month last year, and she heads up Iron Craft, a crafty challenge that appears every other week.
She also does an advent calendar project and just started up a mini advent calendar made with knit mittens.
I need a nap just thinking about it all.
The first three mittens have been posted already, which just tells you how unprepared I am for the holidays. Check them out here:
Mitten One is a sweet little snowflake/star pattern
Mitten Two features hearts
Mitten Three has an allover diamond pattern
These projects are so cute, and a relatively easy way to get a lot of color knitting practice. They measure about 4.5 inches wide and 2.5 inches tall, perfect for a tiny candy bar or other little trinket.
Are you thinking about holiday knitting already? I’m not sure I want to know, but go ahead and tell me what you’re planning/working on.
[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.
