I’m a bit behind on sharing the mittens of the month from Kat at Just Crafty Enough, but this month’s pattern is pretty even if it’s past St. Patrick’s Day.
The Newgrange Mittens were inspired by spirals found on Newgrange at Brú na Bóinne, a monument dating from 3200 BC. But the pretty spirals on the mittens don’t look like they’re for any sort of holiday, so you can wear these mittens any time you like.
They’re worked in two colors using stranded knitting techniques and a chart, so they could be a great skill-building project for someone who hasn’t done color knitting or chart reading before. The bonus is the two layers of yarn that go into the mittens’ construction, making them extra warm.
[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.
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