Maple Leaves and Moose Antlers by Lanja Khon-Engheim

Maple Leaves and Moose Antlers

Knitting
January 2015
Sport (12 wpi) ?
15 stitches and 16 rows = 2 inches
US 2½ - 3.0 mm
280 - 300 yards (256 - 274 m)
8” circumference, 10” from cuff to tip
English
This pattern is available as a free Ravelry download

Maple Leaves and Moose Antlers feature two Estonian patterns, maple leaf and elk horn (which has been adapted slightly here, hence moose antlers). These mittens start with a provisional cast-on at the bottom and are worked from the cuff to the tip. Afterwards the live sts of the cuff are bound off using an i-cord bind-off.

The pattern assumes that you have experience knitting mittens, stranded colourwork, provisionally casting-on, and picking up stitches.

The yardage breakdown is as follows:

135 m / 150 yards MC
100 m / 110 yards CC1
15 m / 16 yards CC2
8 m / 9 yards CC3

The original mittens used PT2 in the colours 63 (MC), 59 (CC1), 14 (CC2) and 75 (CC3). PT2 is a woolen-spun yarn similar to Rauma Finullgarn. I would have personally described it as a heavy fingering weight, but Ravelry calls it sport. So make of that what you will, and just remember to check your gauge.