Guinevere fingerless mittens were inspired by Arthurian tales and coastal walks. I’m imagining mythical figures galloping along windswept beaches. A maiden is on a cliff top looking out to sea, maybe searching for her lover, while below her people are foraging for seaweeds and coastal flowers. Maybe they used these plants to dye yarns in the colours of these mittens!

The Guinevere fingerless mittens feature a floral stranded colourwork pattern on the back of hand and a small allover pattern on the palm. You knit them seamlessly from cuff to fingers, then knit the folk-style thumbs last, with no shaping necessary.

The pattern for Guinevere fingerless mittens is available to purchase here as a digital pdf download, or as a printed pattern or as part of a kit from the Being Knitterly webstore. The printed pattern and kit are sent with a Ravelry digital download code.

The A4 pattern has 6 pages including:

• Before You Start: notes, sizing, yarn, tension | gauge and abbreviations.
• Photo tutorial for the cable cast-on.
• Charts.
• Written instructions for Guinevere fingerless mittens.

Pattern details

Sizes
Palm circumference: 18 (19: 20: 21) cm | 7 (7 1/2: 7.3/4: 8 1/4) inches.
Finished palm circumference: 17 (18: 19: 20) cm | 6 3/4 (7: 7 1/4: 7 3/4) inches.
Finished length: 17 cm | 6 3/4 inches.

Yarn
Jamieson’s of Shetland, Shetland Spindrift (4 ply; 100% Shetland wool; 105 m | 115 yds per 25 g skein):

Blue flowers colour way:
Yarn A: Burnt Umber 1190: 1 (1: 1: 1) x 25 g skein.
Yarn B: Oatmeal 337: 1 (1: 1: 1) x 25 g skein.
Yarn C: Eesit 105: 1 (1: 1: 1) x 25 g skein.
Yarn D: Nighthawk 1020: 1 (1: 1: 1) x 25 g skein.
Yarn E: Cloud 764: 1 (1: 1: 1) x 25 g skein.

Purple flowers colour way:
Yarn A: Aubretia 1300: 1 (1: 1: 1) x 25 g skein.
Yarn B: Lavender 617: 1 (1: 1: 1) x 25 g skein.
Yarn C: Orchid 547: 1 (1: 1: 1) x 25 g skein.
Yarn D: Violet 600: 1 (1: 1: 1) x 25 g skein.
Yarn E: Buttermilk 179: 1 (1: 1: 1) x 25 g skein.

Needles & Accessories
US 1 - 2 | 2.50 mm | UK 12 of your preferred type for working small circumferences.
US 3 | 3.00 mm | UK 11 of your preferred type for working small circumferences.
Stitch marker.
Yarn needle.

Gauge | Tension
35 sts and 35 rounds per 4 inches | 10 cm over stranded colourwork stocking stitch using 3.00 mm needles.

Other details

This pattern is available in two versions: there’s one written for those who knit left-handed as well as the standard one for those who knit right-handed.

Most of you knit right-handed, that is, your stitches move from the left to right needle as you knit: choose “knitting right-handed”.

Some of you knit left-handed, that is, your stitches move from the right to left needle as you knit: choose “knitting left-handed”.

If you are a left-handed knitter who knits right-handed, that is your stitches move from the left to right needle, you should choose “knitting right-handed”.

Samples knitted by Nicki Merrall and Mary Leeson.
Tech edited by Jim Arnall-Culliford.