These fingerless mittens are a part of the accessories collection “New Grass’’. They’re worked in the round, starting and finishing with simple ribbing 1х1, using left and right cross cables to recreate a tender texture of sprouts of new spring grass. The pattern is very adaptive. The pattern is very friendly to beginners, contains clear and full instructions and links to captioned video tutorials.
The pattern is available in English and in Ukrainian.
Number of pages: 9
Skill level: intermediate
Estimated time: 2.5-4.5 hours
Techniques:
elasticcast on
elastic bind off
knitting in the small round
leaned increases with yo
2 over 2 cross cables
jogless knitting
Sizes and finished measurements:
S (15 cm/5.9’’ circumference and 18 cm/7’’ length) works for palm’s circumference 14-16.5 cm/5.5-6.5’’
M (17 cm/6.7’’ circumference and 19 cm/7.5’’ length) works for palm’s circumference 15,5-19 cm/6.1-7,5’’
L (19 cm/7.5’’ circumference and 20 cm/8’’ height) works for palm’s circumference 18-21.6 cm/7-8.5’’
How to figure out your size: measure your palm with measuring tape across the palm higher the basis of thumb, but not including it.
Yarn: DK/light worsted
The sample was knitted with Drops Karisma (100% superwash wool)
200 m per 100 gr/218 yds per 3,5 oz (#45 Light Olive as MC and #73 Petrol as CC)
Meterage/yardage:
* if using 1 color:*
-S size - 40 gr/1,4 oz, or 80 m/88 yds
-M size - 50 gr/1,7 oz, or 100 m/110 yds
-L size - 60 gr/2,1 oz, or 120 m/132 yds
if using 2 colors:*
-S size: - color A 18 gr/0.6 oz, or 36 m/40 yds
- color B 22 gr/0.8 oz, or 44 m/48 yds
-M size: -color A 18 gr/0.6 oz, or 36 m/40 yds
-color B 32 gr/1.1 oz , or 64 m/70 yds
-L size: -color A 20 gr/0.7oz, or 40 m/44 yds
-color B 40 gr/1.4 oz 80 m/88 yds
Needles: circular needles of your preferred length or double pointed needles of size 4.5 mm/US7/UK7 and 5 mm/US8/UK6
Gauge: 18,7 sts and 25 rnds in 10 cm/19 sts and 25,4 rnds stockinette in the small round with needles 5 mm/US 8/UK 6 after blocking
Why is my gauge so precise?
I believe that the most accurate method to determine the gauge is to measure the whole length and width of the blocked swatch and to divide each value accordingly to the amount of the stitches and rows/rounds that you made to create your swatch. In this case, you will get fractions. Rounding these fractions to smaller or bigger whole numbers will lead to inaccurate measurements of the finished object. Only the sum of all the stitches and rows/rounds used to make an object could be rounded to maximum half of the whole number.