Aspen Fair Isle Mitts by Helen Gray Designs

Aspen Fair Isle Mitts

Knitting
February 2018
Fingering (14 wpi) ?
30 stitches and 36 rows = 4 inches
in Stranded Pattern
US 1½ - 2.5 mm
US 2½ - 3.0 mm
270 yards (247 m)
One Size to fit circumference of 7-7.5" (18-19cm)
English
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These little mitts showcase a versatile fair isle border pattern, balanced with zig-zag peeries either side, and highlighted with a bright flower motif at the top. The pattern calls for small amounts of fingering weight yarns suitable for stranded colourwork.

The mitts are worked bottom up in the round with thumb gussets, and feature border/peerie patterns on the front of the hand with a complementary filler stitch pattern on the palm side. There are charts for left and right hand mitts.

Yarns and amounts used
JC Rennie Supersoft Lambswool 4ply
Elephant 180 yards
Confetti 14 yards

Jamieson’s Shetland Spindrift
Bracken 12 yards

JC Rennie Supersoft Cashmere 4ply
Orion 24 yards

JC Rennie Castle
Inverallochy 10 yards

Rowan Fine Tweed
Richmond 17 yards
Buckden 10 yards

Size
One size to fit hand circumference of 7-7.5” (18-19cm).

Finished measurements: 7.5” (19cm)
Length approximately 7.5” (19cm)

Skills/Techniques

  • stranded colourwork
  • knitting in the round
  • reading charts
  • increases/decreases
  • casting on in the middle of a round
  • yarn dominance

The pattern pdf has 6 pages -

  1. pattern description and materials
  2. techniques/special abbreviations
  3. mitts instructions/general abbreviations
  4. chart for left hand mitt
  5. chart for right hand mitt
  6. supplementary charts - black and white, plus alternative 11-row border motif. (Note the black and white chart does not include the thumb gusset).