Colorblock Mittens by Meg Roke

Colorblock Mittens

Knitting
February 2014
Bulky (7 wpi) ?
12 stitches and 17 rows = 4 inches
in stockinette stitch
US 10½ - 6.5 mm
55 - 105 yards (50 - 96 m)
Child’s medium (child’s large, women’s small, women’s medium, women’s large/men’s small)
English
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Calling all partial skeins of bulky yarn! De-stash a little with this TWO-pack pattern. Colorblock Mittens includes two patterns: regular mittens using three blocks of color and fingerless mitts using two blocks of color. You can read more about the story behind the mittens/mitts here.

Finished Measurements
Child’s medium (child’s large, women’s small, women’s medium, women’s large/men’s small)
6 (6 ⅓, 7, 7 ⅓, 8 ⅔)” 15 (16, 17.5, 19, 21.5) cm approx circumference for both mittens and fingerless mittens

Materials
Yarn
Puffin by Quince & Co. (100% American wool; 112 yds 102 m/ 100 g)
Mittens: 1 skein each in Chanterelle (MC), Winesap (CC1) and Sorbet (CC2)
Or a total of 55 (65, 85, 95, 105) yards
Fingerless Mitts: 1 skein each in Storm (MC) and Peacoat (CC)
Or a total of 50 (60, 80, 90, 100) yards

Needles
Four double-pointed needles in US 10.5 6.5 mm or size needed to obtain correct gauge

Notions
Scissors
Tapestry needle
Stitch markers (3)
Waste yarn

Gauge
12 stitches and 17 rows = 4“ 10 cm in stockinette stitch pattern on US 10.5 needles