I started knitting these mittens sitting outside by the paddock and looking at our baby donkey Willow playing with her mother, thus the name for the mittens.
LANGUAGE: English
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WILLOW mittens start with a tubular cast on and a double-knit cuff (both eaplained in the pattern), that fits snuggly around your wrist and does not let the mittens slide off your hand easily, and feature a cable design running along the front of the mitten.
Sizes: This pattern comes in 3 adult sizes: S (M, L) to fit hand circumference up to 18 (20, 22) cm / 7 (8 , 8.75) inches
Suggested Needles (the pattern is written for magic loop method, but you can use DPNs as well):
Size A - 80-100 cm Circular needles size A - 2.5 mm (US 1.5)
Size B - 80-100 cm Circular needles size B - 3 mm (US 2.5).
Size C - 80-100 cm Circular needles size C - 3.5 mm (US 4)
Yarn requirements:
160 (175, 190) meters / 180 (191, 208 ) yards of worsted weight yarn. The sample shown is Size S knit in Cascade 220 (100 gr - 200 m/ 219 yards), colour 9564
Techniques used:
Tubular cast on, Double knitting
Knitting in the round, Knit increases and decreases
Cables, Kitchener stitch, Chart reading
Other materials:
Waste yarn (thinner than main yarn, e.g. fingering weight) , tapestry needle, cable needle, stitch markers (incl. unique marker for BOR), row counter, scissors.
