Finished size: 72” x 20.5”

I decided that my Athabasca Shawl needed some matching mittens using my leftover yarn. This is my basic mitten pattern with the added feature of the lace repeat found in the Athabasca Shawl.

The Athabasca River flows from its source in the Columbia Icefields in Jasper National Park to the Athabasca Lake on the northern boarder of Alberta and Saskatchewan. People have hunted, fished and lived along its banks for thousands of years. We enjoy its beauty and respect the force of nature that it is, especially come the spring ice break.

I grew up on the west coast of Newfoundland. My family spent many Sunday afternoons exploring the Humber Valley and Gros Morne National Park. The west coast of the island is a beautiful vista of hills, valleys, and rivers. Hills and Valley was the name of my parents’ company and seemed a fitting name for this design inspired by home.

My daughter requested this cowl over lap this way to form a pocket for her phone or lunch money. Knit with just one skein of fingering weight yarn this all over cable texture is very eye catching.

These mittens are worked in fingering weight yarn to fit a lady’s hand. Trigger mittens are traditional work mittens in Newfoundland. They are knitted with worsted weight yarn and felt on the inside with wear. Patterns for trigger mittens were passed from knitter to knitter, generation to generation and were seldom written down. There are many ...

The Labrador Shawl incorporates the elements of traditional Newfoundland and Labrador mittens and trigger mittens into a shawl. The colourwork is often referred to a the Labrador diamond. There are many variations of this colourwork but this is one that I fondly remember my grandmothers knitting.

This very simple two colour shawl incorporates stockinette and eyelets. Pair a solid colour with a beautiful indie dyed colourway to create drama.