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Ruffled Mitts

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RELEASE DATE:  July 2001 -- This pattern was originally designed for Alpacas Magazine for its Winter 2001 issue (approximately December 2001).

DESCRIPTION:  These are ladylike, wrist length, fingerless mittens with ruffled cuffs. They are made of luxury yarn and can be worn for dressy occasions, including weddings and tea parties. They can even be worn by the bride, because the fingerless style means that she can show off her wedding ring while wearing the mitts! They can also be worn for "dress up" play or simply to keep your hands warm on cool mornings or evenings while you’re knitting, reading, or working on the computer. They are worked from the top edge down, ending with the ruffled cuff that can be edged with knitted-in beads if you like. If you make them longer and without ruffles, they are sporty versions that even a man with cold hands might enjoy wearing.

SIZE:  The ribbing of this mitt is so flexible that it can fit a wide range of sizes without adjustment in size. The directions are written with three sizes in parentheses: child’s small (fits down to about age 2), child’s large (fits down to about age 8), and a lady’s size (fits small to large women’s hands). The lady’s size is about 5.75 inches long and the child’s small size is about 3.75 inches long. The photograph of four different mitt styles includes a child’s large size (the beaded white pair on left) and lady’s size (the other three mitts), the child’s small size is not shown.

SKILL REQUIRED:  Intermediate — you must be able to knit circularly on double point needles.

MATERIALS:

• YARN:  Sport weight yarn of any fiber, although luxury yarns such as alpaca, silk, mohair, cashmere, or angora would be wonderful. But even basic wool is good for the unruffled version. The unruffled version takes not too many yards more than the equivalent sized ruffled version
  • MAIN COLOR -- about 145 yards for the lady’s size if using only one color, less for the other sizes (about 75 yards for the child’s small), and less if adding a contrast color. For the one-color lady’s size, I used 2 skeins of "America’s Alpaca" by The Alpaca Fiber Cooperative of North America.
  • CONTRAST COLOR --  about 50 yards for the lady’s size, less for the other sizes.
• NEEDLES:  1 set of size 3 double point needles or size to achieve gauge AND (optional) a second set of the same size double point needles
• MISCELLANEOUS:
  • Stitch marker
  • Darning needle to weave in ends.
  • (optional) small safety pins for marking round counts
  • (optional) 6-8 tight-fitting point protectors or rubber bands or hair binders
  • (optional) (144, 168, 192) beads with holes large enough to string on the yarn (I used what are called pebble beads, which are glass beads which are larger than seed beads and smaller than pony beads)
  • (optional) a thin darning needle narrow enough to fit through the beads, but with an eye large enough to thread the yarn through

GAUGE:  10 rib pairs (20 stitches of K 1, P 1 ribbing) per 2 inches (unstretched).

 close-up of ruffle

mitt upside down as knitted

worked in hot pink alpaca with gold beads, on large lady's hand

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