Norsk Folkemuseum NFSA.1027

This pattern calls for a 100 g of natural white, and 50 g each of blue and red DK yarn.

These mittens are named after a little village called Avzi, situated 8 kilometres to the south of Kautokeino.

These mittens has a rhombus pattern on the handback only, knitted in a special intarsia technique: after each pattern row, the work gets turned to the wrong side, and the next pattern row is purled with red and blue yarn only. Stitches that have to be white are just slipped off the needle. The next round, all “new” red and blue stitches are slipped, and only the white pattern stitches are knitted. This is called the “Avzi- method”.