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Super Bulky Mitten Knitting Patterns

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Need a quick knit gift or just a way to keep your hands warm in a hurry? Super bulky knit mittens are the way to go. Super bulky yarn knits up fast and mittens keep you warmer than gloves because all your fingers are together.

Super bulky knit mitten patterns run the gamut from super simple designs perfect for beginners to more detailed patterns. Let’s take a look at some.

On the easier end of the spectrum, try the Classic Knit Mittens from Weird Sheep. They are worked in the round on double pointed needles. You can work them in a single color as shown or use yarn left over from other projects. They only take about 85 yards and are sized for babies and adults.

Yankee Knitter Designs has another cute super bulky mitten knitting pattern that uses contrasting yarn on the cuff and the top of the mitten (though of course you can make them solid or striped instead if you want). This pattern has three sizes for children as well as women and men’s sizes, and it includes instructions for working on DPNs, magic loop or on straight needles.

Use all your chunky scraps on the Zero to Hero mittens from Brenda Made This. The pattern is mostly stockinette stitch with a purl ridge on the right side each time you change colors to add some texture.

Add some twisted stitches to your mittens with the North Shore Mitts by Kim Bussell on Ravelry. This pattern comes in three sizes for adults. If you like the technique of the stitch pattern, there’s a coordinating beanie, headband, and coffee coozie as well.

Or throw in a super simple cable like on these mittens from KNITERATURES. This pattern comes in a single size for adults and  it would be a great first cable knitting project.

How about some colorwork? Karolina Adamczyk’s Five Times Warmer pattern on Ravelry includes five different colorwork patterns to use on your mitts. From snowflakes to hearts and diamonds there are lots of good options for simple colorwork that will keep you even warmer than regular bulky mittens.

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Classic Dishcloth Knitting Patterns

Fall will be here before we know it, and that means there are holidays coming right behind where we might be entertaining at home. It’s always fun to have a hand knit touch in your home for other people to see, and if you’re going to be in the kitchen all day you might as well have some nice knit dish cloths to use. 

I love this little plaid hand towel from Darling Jadore. Use a little bit of leftover cotton yarn from another project for the plaid portion. It looks like the horizontal stripes are worked as you knit and the vertical stripes are done with duplicate stitch, making this a quick and easy project even newer knitters can make. 

Combine garter stitch and an easy eyelet pattern worked sideways to make the Annette Dish Towel from Cluck Cluck Boots, which is meant to be reminiscent of flour sack towels. It calls for DK weight yarn and you can work it in one color or two (or even three!). 

Add a little more texture with this set of kitchen towels from Whileberry Creative. They’re mostly worked in garter stitch with borders in easy knit/purl patterns, and you can work them in sport or worsted weight yarn. 

Two of Wands Shop has another cute allover knit and purl pattern they call the Seersucker Textured Tea Towel. It’s an easy repeating pattern worked in worsted weight yarn, and there’s a chart in the pattern you can use, but don’t have to, if you want to practice knitting from a chart. 

The Classic Cloth dish towel from Handmade Home by Connie is another one that can use a little leftover yarn in a contrasting color, or you could color block it our use stripes throughout the pattern. This one uses worsted weight yarn and another easy repeating knit purl stitch pattern. 

If you like to hang your towel on the oven handle or elsewhere but it’s always falling off, try the Stay Put kitchen towel from Fancy Step Knits. This project is worked in garter stitch and includes a hole partway through so you can pull the towel through itself over a rod or handle. Stripes are optional but a nice addition.