Kat over at Just Crafty Enough has a great goal for 2014: designing a pair of mittens every month. Her February pattern is sweet and romantic but still warmish. They’re pretty and have a bit of lace, so they’re not for shoveling the walk or getting into a snowball fight, but may be just the thing for your Valentine’s date.
They have a long lacy cuff and the lace pattern continues in a panel up the back of the hand, which is why they’re not totally warm, but it’s a small enough section that you won’t feel like there are giant holes in your mittens.
I think they’re pretty darn cute, and the lace is easy enough to work for someone who hasn’t done a lot of lace knitting in the past.
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.
[Photo via Just Crafty Enough.]
Love these – so pretty with just the right amount of girly-ness 🙂
We should have a KAL for mittens?