Warm Hands

There is nothing as lovely as Winter Pansies. So pretty and now planted in our window boxes so we can enjoy their cheerful faces  over the next few months.

These fingerless mittens were knit using my basic fingerless mitts pattern with a few tweaks. I wanted the mitts to be a bit longer at my wrist and slightly shorter on the hand section. I also narrowed the hand section slightly before knitting the cuff at the fingers.[Read More]

In the Autumn of 2010, I needed a new pair of knitted gloves, as the weather was becoming chilly and at the time I was walking with Gillie and Shane twice a day.

It can be frustrating buying gloves as they seldom fit well. Often, the pinky finger will be too long, while other fingers are too short. I wanted a comfortable basic glove pattern that could be knit reasonably quickly, using 4-ply or sock yarn. At the time most of my yarn stash consisted of lace weight, sock yarn and 4-ply yarns as I did a lot of knitting for Sasha Dolls. My yarn stash has really only expanded to include a selection of DK yarns.[Read More]

When I was planning these fingerless mittens, I remembered the astrakhan mittens that my mum wore when I was a small girl in the late 60s. I remember loving the soft textural top of the mittens contrasted with the plainer suede of the palm. This was the effect I wanted to capture for these fingerless gloves with the textural moss stitch on the cuffs and the top.

Moss Stitch is one of the simplest and most attractive textural stitches that I know. I love the way the stitches look as though they slightly skew as the pattern develops.[Read More]

I loved the stylish look of the Beachcomber Wristwarmers when I saw them in The Knitter and decided it would be a great choice for reviewing on the blog. I tweaked the pattern so that I could use some of my 4-ply sock yarn for knitting these lovely fingerless mittens.

The Beachcomber Wristwarmers designed by Amanda Crawford was featured in The Knitter Issue 3. They had been knit using DK-weight cotton yarn. She had designed a beautiful messenger bag and wristwarmers inspired by the colours and patterns found while wandering along beachcombing. She combined the sandy colours with a pale blue for the wristwarmers.[Read More]

The fingerless mittens knitting pattern is a quick project that uses a small amount of yarn. I have found that I often have enough yarn left after knitting a pair of socks to knit these.

The pattern was designed for my sister who wanted to knit a pair of fingerless mittens using the lovely Mini Mochi yarn.  I used Trekking sock yarn from my stash in shades of blue, taupe, grey and russet to knit a pair of fingerless mittens for myself. I like using sock yarn to knit fingerless mittens because the wool element gives warmth and comfort while the nylon element adds durability to the mitten. But any 4-ply sock yarn can be used to knit this pattern successfully.[Read More]

As I had promised to knit my sister Pip a pair of fingerless mittens of her choice. She decided on the very cute Mitt Envy fingerless mittens pattern featuring a beautiful cable panel.

Within a few days, Mitt Envy designed by Weezalana and a skein of Belle Epoque Silk Sock 50% silk, 50% superwash merino sock yarn in a beautiful clear blue arrived.[Read More]