This year I’ve been sharing Kat from Just Crafty Enough’s quest to knit a pair of mittens every month, and the April pair is really cute.
The April Showers mittens feature — what else? — umbrellas, and are a pretty easy way to get your feet wet (sorry) with color knitting if you’ve never tried it before.
I love the little details on this pattern, such as seed bead raindrops on the back of the hands. Because the umbrella is only on one side, you have to carry the color around the palm, making that part of the mitten 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.
kat says
Thanks again Sarah for featuring my mittens!