Have been wanting to crochet mittens, but had a hard time finding a pattern I really liked, until I seen these. Since I am using worsted weight yarn, I am making the heavy weight version of these mittens.

I am not going to lie, I struggled with this pattern. I owe a huge “Thank You” to the designer, Lyn Robinson. Without her, I would have never been able to make these. Of course, I have to always make things harder for myself, and when I seen shelleyjjoyce’s version of these mittens, I knew I wanted those. But, since she used a much thinner yarn this meant some changes. Thank you shelleyjjoyce for the charts and notes, beautiful adaptation of a stunning pattern!

Here is what I did. I decided to make the medium in worsted weight. I have always wanting to learn to do foundation single and double crochet, so this was a good opportunity.

1. I started with 32 FDC.

2. Row 1 as written. But, I kept messing this row up and ending with more stitches. I counted the chain 2, but then did the FPDC around the initial FDC of first round. Where, since the chain 2 counts as a stitch, the first front post stitch should be around the 2nd stitch of initial row. (It took me numerous froggings and Lyn’s help to realize what I was doing wrong), but alas, round 1 ended with correct stitches and I joined to the chain2.

3. Row 2-7 (I made cuff longer) Repeat row 1, remembering chain 2 counts, as to do the fdc’s on top of previous ones, same with fdc’s.

4. This is where I started using shelleyjjoyce’s pattern for cable stitches.
   Row 1 .- This is substitution for Row 1 of main left glove of original pattern. I did the set up row from shelleyjoyce, but combining with original pattern and my stitch count. Here is exactly what I did (parenthesis are shelley’s pattern, I hope it is okay that I copy this. Ch.2, esc in first 2……“FPDC, BPDC, esc in next 2 sts, FPDC around next 2 sts, esc in next 3 sts, BPDC, FPDC”… esc in next 18..

Row 2. - Row 2 of original pattern, but subsittuted middle 11 stitches (cable pattern) with shelley’s round 1 of cable pattern..
Exactly what I did
Ch 2. Esc in first 2…… FPDC, BPDC, popcorn, esc, cable cross, esc, popcorn, esc, BPDC, FPDC …….esc in next 18.

I continued this way, cycling through Shelley’s cable pattern, substituting middle of original pattern, until round 14 where I started the thumb..

Round 14. Ch. 2, Esc in first 2, (this round falls in round 3 of cable pattern, her charts were quite a bit of help for keeping on track)….. fpdc, bpdc, right cross, esc in next 2 sts, left cross, esc, bpdc, fpdc… Now I continued with original pattern for thumb hole (falls in different row, but this is where it seemed right on my mitten)..Work 5 6 fsc. Skip last 6 st. Join with sl st to top of ch 2.

Round 15, back to starting with ch.2 esc, substituting middle of cable pattern and ending with 18 esc..

Will update when I start my decreases, but really needed to make sure I had these notes for when I made the right hand.
esc in next 12 st.