Covered with an assortment of colourwork flowers, the Flower Bed Mitts are the perfect project for fans of stranded colourwork. Seeing the different flowers form as you knit makes these mitts difficult to put down!

Sizing
Sizes: 1 (2, 3)
Finished hand circumference: 7 (8, 9)” / 18 (20.5, 23) cm

To measure the circumference of your hand measure your palm horizontally just below your knuckles (at the widest part of your hand), keeping your fingers relaxed.
These mitts are designed to be worn with either zero ease or up to 1” of positive ease, so if you’re between sizes I would recommend choosing the larger size.
The sample mitts are shown in size 1 on 6.5” / 16.5 cm circumference hands.

Yarn
Main colour (background colour): Fingering weight yarn
32 (40, 50) grams

128 (160, 200) yards

117 (146, 183) metres 

Contrast colour: Fingering weight yarn
16 (20, 24) grams

64 (80, 96) yards
59 (73, 88) metres

Suggested Yarn
Main colour (white with speckles): 1 skein of Spectrum Fibre Twisted Sock, colour ‘Origami’ (80% SW Merino, 20% Nylon) - 100 grams / 400 yards / 365 metres per skein.
Contrast colour: 1 skein of Spectrum Fibre Twisted Sock, colour ‘Teal’ (80% SW Merino, 20% Nylon) - 100 grams / 400 yards / 365 metres per skein.

Needles
2.25mm - 9” / 23 cm circular, or your preferred needle type for small circumference knitting (use the needle size needed to achieve gauge).
You will need a spare circular needle which is 2.25mm or smaller for the Tubular Bind Off.

Notions
Row counter
1 stitch marker (for beginning of round)
Waste yarn (to hold thumb stitches)
Tapestry needle

Gauge
38 sts & 46 rnds in a 4 x 4 inch (10 x 10 cm) square worked in the round following the chart, blocked.

Techniques
Knitting
Purling
Working in the round
Ribbing
Stranded colourwork
Trapping floats in stranded colourwork
Working from a chart (the colourwork for this pattern is charted only)
Increasing (M1L and M1R)
Picking up stitches
Long Tail Tubular cast on
Backwards Loop cast on
Tubular bind off