Warm Hearts Warm Hands by Lois Silva

Warm Hearts Warm Hands

Knitting
February 2023
Bulky (7 wpi) ?
14 stitches and 18 rows = 4 inches
in Stockinette Stitch while double knitting
US 10 - 6.0 mm
178 - 200 yards (163 - 183 m)
Adult size
English
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About the Pattern
Warm Hearts Warm Hands is a reversible muff knitting pattern. Using provisional cast-on method, and double knitting worked flat, you will graft together the edges using Kitchener Stitch. The design inspiration is that you can hold your own hands, or the hands of someone you love and keep warm.

Skills required

  • Provisional Cast-on
  • Knit Purl
  • Double Knitting
  • Slipping Stitches
  • Double Knit chart reading
  • Kitchener Stitch

Design features/benefits

  • Provisional cast-on with Kitchener Stitch to keep the entire pattern seamless
  • Double knitting to create extra thick fabric that is completely reversible
  • A heart motif knit right side up and upside down, so that no matter who is looking at the heart (others, or yourself), the heart is always right side up
  • Tutorial videos to help you with each skill along the way

Sizes
One size fits teen/adult

Finished Measurements
12x12.5 inches or 30.5x31.25 cm

Yarn
Warm Hearts Warm Hands knit pattern uses two contrasting colors of yarn, double knit to create a reversible fabric that has a heart motif.

  • Background Color uses 89 yards or 81 meters
  • Design/Motif Color uses 89 yards or 81 meters
  • Total yarn uses 178 yards or 162 meters

Sample knit with
Knit Picks “Wonderfluff”; Fiber content: 70% baby alpaca, 23% nylon, 7% merino wool; 142 yards = 50g Sweetpea Heather & Cosmopolitan

Knitting Needles
US size 10 (6.0 mm) straight or circular knitting needles (long enough to accommodate size of muff), or size needed to obtain gauge

Other Materials

  • Additional pair of (6.0 mm) knitting needles (or 1-2 sizes smaller), used for cast-on, and grafting together
  • Scissors
  • Tapestry needle
  • Beginning of round st marker

Gauge
14 st x 18 rows = 4x4 inch or 10x10 cm square in stockinette stitch of double knitting blocked. Count only the visible stitches.