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Dandelion seeds? Little parachutes? Fireworks?
Choose your favourite colour combination to bring out the delicate flower stitches that dance along the back of the hand as if borne by a sudden breath of air ….

The mitts are worked in the round from the cuff to the fingers and feature a thumb gusset for added comfort and freedom of movement.
Beads are added while knitting, and the flower stitches are knit in with a contrasting strand of yarn carried along vertically. Once you have bound off, you will only need to weave in ends – no additional embroidery is involved!

Skills required
Casting on and binding off, knitting and purling in the round over a small circumference, working basic increases and decreases, picking up stitches.
The back of the hand is worked from a chart depicting the position of the beads and flower stitches.
Photo tutorials explain in detail how to place the beads and work flower stitches with a contrasting colour.

Notions

• 3 stitch markers
• A crochet hook approximately the size of your knitting needles to help creating the flower stitches
• A tiny crochet hook that fits through the hole of the seed beads or another tool to apply beads (e.g. dental floss)
• A length of scrap yarn
• Darning needle

Yarn and beads

• Fingering-weight yarn in two colours, approximately 95 (125, 160, 180, 220) m or 104 (137, 175, 197, 241) yards of main colour and 2 m or 2.2 yards of contrasting colour
• 10 (10, 14, 14, 14) seed beads that can be threaded onto your chosen yarn (beads with a diameter of 2.6–4

Sizes
The pattern includes instructions for five sizes, roughly corresponding to:
1: toddler / small child
2: older child
3: adult XS/S
4: adult M
5: adult L

Thank you to my tech editor Jo Torr and to my lovely and very helpful test knitters boisegarden, EleanorGang, JaimeLouise, Jen555, Juliemross, ksenmi, SilkCut and Zwulli!