This pattern has been professionally tech-edited.
Chéticamp is a small village located in Cape Breton, not too far from the Opulent Alpaca, a family run alpaca farm in Inverness. They supplied me this beautiful yarn and I was inspired to create this design.
Knit in the round, Chéticamp Mittens are warm stranded colourwork mittens, worked with a ribbed cuff lining, a braided trim and a comfortable thumb gusset using worsted weight wool.
Size & Finished measurements:
• Small: child’s large/woman’s small 18 cm (7 “) circumference and 23 cm (9 “) long
• Medium: woman’s medium 19 cm (7.5 “) circumference and 26 cm (10 “) long
• Large: woman’s large 20 cm (8 “) circumference and 28 cm (11 “) long
Materials:
• 5 colours of worsted weight wool
• 80 - 104 metres (115 – 126 yards) main colour (natural)
• 36-45 metres (40 – 50 yards) of CC1 (green)
• 43 – 53 metres (48 – 58 yards) of CC2 (blue)
• 21 – 28 metres (23 – 30 yards) of CC3 (red)
• 21 – 28 metres (23 – 30 yards) of CC4 (gold)
• Small: 3.0 mm/ 2 1/2 US needles for ribbed cuff, 3.5 mm/ 4 US needles for mitten body
• Medium: 3.5 mm/ 4 US needles for ribbed cuff, 4.0 mm/ 6 US needles for mitten body
• Large: 4.0 mm/6 US needles for ribbed cuff, 4.5 mm/ 7 US needles for mitten body
• small quantity of waste yarn
• stitch marker
Gauge:
30 (28,26) stitches of colourwork pattern equals 10 cm (4 inches) after blocking. To save time and to ensure accurate sizing, check gauge.