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Tiny Painter: Cable Knit Hand Warmers & A Tiny Miracle. First off, I have to tell someone because I am so relieved!

Tiny Painter: Cable Knit Hand Warmers & A Tiny Miracle

This weekend my favorite mittens and my car keys went missing, I checked every tiny nook and cranny of my home trying to figure out where they could have gone! By Sunday night I thought I was completely crazy and decided the only thing left to do was pray. I'm not Catholic, but my Mom grew up Catholic and I have learned little things about it throughout the years, and I knew that St. Anthony was the patron saint of lost articles (or something like that?)... Kastanienfeuer pattern by Jessica Leigh. I’ve had the good fortune to spend my holidays in central Europe twice.

Kastanienfeuer pattern by Jessica Leigh

As I was knitting these mittens, I kept finding myself thinking of the specific traditions of the area I visited in Germany: candied nuts, mulled wine, and roasted chestnuts. These mittens are knit in brioche stitch with cables flickering their way across the backs like little flames. They’re knitted in relatively fine yarn, but the brioche stitch makes them feel thick and warm. I chose a possum-merino blend because the dark possum fiber adds depth to the stitch pattern and tends to reduce pilling – very useful for mittens! If you choose a fiery color, you too will be thinking of chestnut flames: Kastanienfeuer. Kastanienfeuer mittens : Knitty.com - Winter 2015. Cuff (Left and Right) CO 44[50, 58] sts using the long-tail tubular cast on method (see Notes).

Kastanienfeuer mittens : Knitty.com - Winter 2015

Distribute across your needles as you prefer and join for working in the round. Ribbing round: [P1, k1] around. Work Ribbing as set for 24 rounds total. Mitten Body & Thumb Gusset Left Mitten only, Round 1 (transition): (P1, yf sl1yo) to last 4 sts, p1, place marker for start of thumb gusset, yf sl1yo, place marker for end of thumb gusset marker, p1, yf sl1yo, . Right Mitten only, Round 1 (transition): P1, (yf sl1yo, p1) 13[15, 17] times, place marker for start of thumb gusset, yf sl1yo, place marker for end of thumb gusset, (p1, yf sl1yo) to end. Tiny Painter: Cable Knit Hand Warmers & A Tiny Miracle. Cabled Wristers. [ Close Privacy Policy ] Privacy Policy / Your California Privacy Rights Revised and posted as of January 11, 2016 Prime Publishing, LLC ("Company," "we" or "us") reserves the right to revise this Privacy Policy at any time simply by posting such revision, so we encourage you to review it periodically.

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Knit by bit: simple cable mitts

Start your year off with a bang, and learn how to knit a simple cable. >Free pattern Friday : Frothy Gothy Wristwarmers. Just for April: Edited to add:I’m adding some notes at the end of the pattern to allow you to customise to different yarns, lengths, gauges etc.

>Free pattern Friday : Frothy Gothy Wristwarmers

Frothy Gothy Wristwarmers based on my Garter lace Mittens 1 x 50 gram ball of any DK [ 8 ply or sport ] yarn that will yield a gauge of 22 stitches to 4″ over stocking/stockinette stitch. 1294. The Daily Skein. Simple, cute mittens are always in style.

The Daily Skein

Add a funny name and how can you lose? The name is a combination of “cable: and “bobble” inspired by the off-center cable which features small, easy bobbles for interest. The afterthought thumb is simple to knit and the shaping at the top of the mitten makes a very flat top. This is a great project for some luxury or handspun yarn.

The purple mittens shown were snatched up by my sister last year. Magnolia in english. Cabled mittens engl. Tulip Gloves (Vintage)KnitWiki. Honeycombmitts. Knitting and so on: Pieces of Eight Mitts. It was a topological challenge for me to get these mitts right.

Knitting and so on: Pieces of Eight Mitts

These fancy fingerless gloves are knitted in one piece (no yarn cutting involved) beginning at the thumb. The "Eight”-Shape is achieved by increasing in the first part of a row, and decreasing in the second part. 46K+Save This work by Knitting and so on is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Dansk / Danish: A danish version is available here on strikkeglad.dk or here as a PDF. Deutsch / German: Two german versions of these have been written by Renate Schattschneider: Eine deutsche Version von diesen Handschuhen wurde von Renate Schattschneider erstellt: A crochet version of this pattern - called Octavo Fingerless Gloves - is available here.

Techniques A knitter who wants to knit these mitts should know the following techniques: The picture on the right shows where the techniques are used - referring also to the work steps as described in the instructions.