For these fingerless mitts I adapted a pattern from the fantastic stitch dictionary by Hitomi Shida, in German it is called ‘Die neue Strickmusterbibel’. The pattern is very versatile, you can see many different things in it. For example, I see butterflies, my daughter elephants and spiders. Therefore, these mitts are called animal mitts.

The mitts are one size only, but due to the stretchy pattern fits a wide variety of hand circumferences. My mitts have a circumference of 20 cm and are 20 cm long.

I used about 45 g of fingering yarn (Supergarne Aktiv 4-fach, colourway Atol) and needle size 2.25 mm (US 1). My testers all needed a bit more yarn, a 50 gram skein of fingering yarn might not be enough!