Hand-knitted fingerless mitts/gloves with a Blue Macaw sitting among the flowers on a climbing plant. The mitts have picot edgings at both top and bottom.

A Blue Macaw and part of the climbing floral plant is on the front of the mitts and the palm is covered with the stem, leaves and flowers. The thumb part is plain.

The gloves in the photograph were knitted in light beige Debbie Bliss Rialto 4ply, but any 4ply yarn could be used instead. The Blue Macaw is in dark bright blue with yellow/black eye, black beak, teal edging to the wing and black feet and tail feather. The stem of the climbing plant is brown with olive leaves and the flowers are pale mauve, dark mauve and pinky-mauve with yellow centres.

The motifs have been knitted using the intarsia method, but the gloves could be knitted in plain stocking stitch and the motifs added afterwards using Duplicate Stitch/Swiss Darning.

The approximate measurements of the mitts are 3.25” wide (un-stretched and not counting the thumb), 5” long from top of rib to folded edge at top of upper picot edging and 1” long cuff consisting of rib and lower picot edging.

The pattern comprises of typed instructions for the shaping and charts for both left and right mitt.

(c)Twisted Classics