This pattern is retired and not usually available. However, I make many of my retired patterns available for a few days twice a year. The next time will likely be in the summer of 2025. Read on for how to get notified when it comes back.

In the summer of 2022, I realized that I found maintaining a back catalog of hundreds of patterns overwhelming. I couldn’t do it and still release new things. So I took my old patterns down so I could keep doing new work.

A few favorites have come back, and lots of new things have come out! But the vast majority of the old patterns are retired and are no longer generally available.

However, enough folks have asked about old favorites that I make many of the retired patterns available for a few days twice a year (usually in early summer and around Thanksgiving).

• If you see the buy buttons on this page, you’ve caught it on one of the days it’s available!
• If you don’t see the buy buttons on this page, then it’s not currently available.
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Purportedly adj apparently but perhaps not actually

This is a companion to Ostensibly (the hat in the picture at the bottom of the page).

I tried. I really did. I tried to be done with this nifty mesh when I finished the hat. But I was having too much fun and I wasn’t ready to be done. And I firmly believe accessories are more fun when they come in sets, so here we are!

These cuffs use the same netting technique as Ostensibly (technically it’s colorwork…but you only have to work with one color per row, so it’s about as easy as it can be, plus there’s an illustrated tutorial to walk you through the fancy bits step by step if you’re feeling nervous). Add in a really lovely thumb gusset (I truly cannot decide if I want to put it on the back of my hand to show the world or keep it on my palm as a secret just for me), and you’re good to go. The result is a cuff that’s adorable, comfy (all that ribbing means it really hugs your hand), and fun to knit (that netting really is satisfying).

The hardest bit will be picking your colors. Team colors? House colors? School colors? Something to match your favorite coat? Flip around whatever you used for the hat to make a perfect set? Use up the last tiny bit of that super precious yarn as the accent (you don’t need much)? The possibilities are pretty much endless!

The cuff is written in four sizes (castons of 36, 40, 44, and 48 stitches), and you should feel free to adjust your gauge a bit to fine tune the fit of the cuff. Just be sure that you’re working at a gauge that gives you a fabric you like with your chosen yarn!

I recommend working at something around 6, 6.5, or 7 stitches per inch, and I’ve included a table to help you figure out what gauge you’ll want to use for your size. With that range of sizes and gauges, the cuff will fit a hand or wrist between 5.75 and 8.75 inches (with lots of points in between).

This cuff uses between 175 and 225 yards of the main color (that’s the gray in the pictures), and about 25-50 yards of the contrast color (that’s the pink in the pictures). I got the cuffs, the hat, and a whole bunch of pompoms out of two skeins of the gray and one mini skein rainbow set (with quite a bit of the rainbow yarns left over).

This is perfect for you if:

• You’ve got a little bit of special yarn to show off
• You firmly believe accessories are more fun in sets

It’s not for you if:

• You don’t like charts (the pattern uses charts)
• You hate swatching (you need to swatch to check your needle size)