These mittens are worked using an easy to remember sequence of knit, purl and slipped stitches, creating a design that looks more complex than it is. This simple technique produces a mitten in three colours, while only working with one colour per round.

Mittens can be knit with either sport-weight yarn (shown in blue) or fingering-weight yarn (shown in brown). The mittens can also be knit with just one or two colours for a completely different look.

NOTE: You can achieve many different looks for this design, depending on how you alternate the colours. Please take a look at my projects for this pattern. In each project I’ve noted how I alternated the colours so you can understand how to achieve a similar look.

Degree of Difficulty
This pattern is suitable for an intermediate knitter with some experience knitting in the round. The right and left-hand mittens are identical.

Size
Instructions are written in three sizes for a woman’s small, medium, or large hand, in either fingering-weight or sport-weight yarn.

Techniques used in pattern:
• Casting on
• Knitting in the round
• Knitting from written directions
• Slipped stitches
• Increase stitches (make one left and make one right)
• Decrease stitches (knit two together and knit three together)

Materials
Fingering weight version:
Knit Picks Palette fingering weight yarn (100% Peruvian Highland Wool, 231 yards/50 grams)
• 1 ball each in three colours. Mittens pictured were knit using Colour A – Bittersweet Heather, Colour B – Camel Heather and Colour C – Cream.
Needles: set of 5, 2.5 mm double-pointed needles (DPNs); or one 2.5 mm, 100 cm (40 inch) long circular needle, if you prefer to use the Magic Loop method, or size needed to get gauge.

Sport-weight version:
Knit Picks Wool of the Andes sport weight yarn (100% Peruvian Highland Wool, 137 yards/50 grams)
• 1 ball each in three colours. Mittens pictured were knit using Colour A – Midnight Heather, Colour B – Baltic Heather and Colour C – White.
Needles: set of 5, 2.75 mm (US#2) double-pointed needles (DPNs); or one 2.75 mm (US#2), 100 cm (40 inch) long circular needle, if you prefer to use the Magic Loop method, or size needed to get gauge.

Both versions:
• Stitch markers.
• Tapestry needle for finishing.
• Length of smooth, contrasting colour waste yarn to hold thumb stitches.

Gauge
Fingering weight version:
• 8 stitches/ 2.54 cm (1 inch) over basket rib stitch, knit in the round.

Sport-weight version:
• 7 stitches/ 2.54 cm (1 inch) over basket rib stitch, knit in the round.
Knitting to the correct stitch gauge is important to achieving the finished measurements noted above. Row height gauge is not important, as the mitten can be knit to any desired length.

Finished Measurements
Circumference around fingers: 17.8 cm/7 inches, (19 cm/7.5 inches, 20.3 cm/8 inches)
Bottom of cuff to top of fingers: 23.25 cm/9.5 inches, (26 cm/10.25 inches, 28 cm/11 inches), or desired length.
Wrist to top of fingers: 17.75 cm/7 inches, (19 cm/7.5 inches, 21 cm/8.25 inches), or desired length.