Hi, Knitters,
It has definitely been mitten knitting season in my house recently. I have been knitting little mittens and big mittens and measuring hands around here. I've even darned a beloved mitten. I've concluded that I basically love knitting mittens. And little mitten knitting is really the best thing ever.
I have a mitten pattern called Waiting for Winter Mittens & Fingerless Mitts and it has become the most popular pattern in my Ravelry Pattern Shop. The sizes for the adult-size Waiting for Winter Mitten pattern included adult small, medium and large. The medium-size fit me perfectly.
Medium Size Waiting for Winter Mittens
Yesterday I updated the adult mitten pattern with added sizing instructions for mittens that will fit larger women's and men's hands. I added extra-large and xx-large sizes. I think these new sizes round out the pattern nicely.
And now I've just released the Little Waiting for Winter Mittens pattern which includes baby-sized thumbless mitt, kids mittens for ages 2-12 years old and kid-size fingerless mitt instructions!
Here is some information you might like to know:
Pattern information:
The adult-size Waiting for Winter Mittensand Fingerless Mitts pattern has become the most popular pattern in my RavelryPattern Shop. I’ve recently updated the original pattern with two larger sizes
that will fit extra-large hands. Now it’s time to tend to those tiny (and
squishy) hands in your life.
This pattern for little ones includes
children’s mitten sizes for small, medium and large kids. Plus, I’ve thrown in
two thumb-less baby-size mitt instructions found at the end of the pattern. It’s
nice to have these little sizes all in one place.
Let’s get started before those little
fingers get cold!
Size: Child’s Small (Medium,
Large) to fit a 5 (6, 6 ½) inch hand circumference measured across the knuckles
at the base of the fingers and at the top of the palm.
To Fit: Approximately 2-4 (4-8, 8-12) years old – this will vary!
Baby Mitts (pattern on page 9) sizes: 6-12 months (12-24 months)
*The length of the hand and thumb can easily be made shorter or
longer. Suggested lengths for each size are given in the pattern.
Yarn: 100 yards
of a worsted weight yarn.
Note: I weighed the samples in grams for the 6-12 month size baby mitt and
the child’s size small and medium.
6-12 month: 11 grams
Small: 20 grams
Medium: 28 grams
The samples in the photos are striped in Noro Kureyon yarn. If you’d
like to make the stripey version alternate 2 contrasting skeins of Noro Kureyon
every two rounds. The thumbs and the top of the hand decreases are not striped
and are just knit from one skein.
Note: There are
options for customizing the length pointed out in the pattern. Be sure to note
if your mittens are longer than the suggested lengths in the pattern the
yardage requirement will be greater than listed.
Suggested needles: US 7/4.5mm double-pointed needles, set of 4
Gauge: 5 stitches
per inch in stockinette stitch
To celebrate the new mitten sizes big and small, I am hosting a knitalong on my Ravelry group. Please join us. There is a thread stickied at the top called Little Waiting for Winter Mittens & KAL (knitalong). All you have to do is post a photo of any pair of Waiting for Winter Mittens (baby, kid or adult-sized) you have knit at any time (you could have knit them yesterday or a couple of years ago)! Super easy! You can post as many times as you have pairs of mittens.
I'll pick some winners from the photos that are posted along the way and at the end of the knitalong, December 21st. You can chat in the thread, too. No big rules, just a celebration of mitten knitting.
Click here for the Itty-Bitty Knits Little Waiting for Winter Mittens KAL thread! The prizes will be fantastic, I promise!
If I'm knitting the stripey version of the mittens where I am alternating skeins every 2 rounds I will count the stripes when I am knitting subsequent pairs. I have knit so many of the medium adult-sized mittens that I have the number of stripes memorized for the cuff, hand and thumb. This makes it so easy and fun. I don't even have to look at the pattern.
Here are some mitten-y photos for you!
The baby mitts are the smallest size and the kids mittens are knit in the small and medium sizes.
Thank you, as always, for the support! I hope you love your mitten knitting this season as much as I do. If you have both of these patterns you will have every size covered from baby to xx-large adults.
Here are the links one more time:
One last thing, at the end of the week I am posting free patterns to make little sweaters for the wooden cut-out sheep and alpacas from Juniper Moon Farms. These wooden cut-outs are an effort of Susan Gibbs and her husband to raise $5,000 for Heifer International this season. She is having an update for the animals this Thursday in her Etsy shop if you are interested.
I'll talk more about all of this later in the next blog post with the free sweater patterns for the animals. These make super cute ornaments and gifts! I have all of the sweaters knit and on my cut-outs now and they are just adorable. I used mini-skeins of fingering or sock weight yarn. I can't wait to share more.
Click here for the JuniperMoonSheepShop on Etsy! Thursday, Nov. 17th is the update.
Happy mitten-knitting season to you all. I'll be back soon with more.
xo ~ susan
9 comments:
Questions: the way you have the sizes listed right now (with the parentheses) on the Original pattern's Ravelry page "6,(7,8) (9,10)" makes it look as if there are still only three sizes in total: 6, 7-8, and 9-10. Are the 9 and 10 the new, extended sizes of XL and XXL? It's currently unclear what the original "small, medium, and large" sizes were in terms of measurements. Perhaps you could add the words or abbreviations for the sizes into the information showing the size measurements? Secondly, are you going to offer an opportunity to invest in both the adult and baby mitten patterns in a single purchase at a slightly reduced cost or do you intend to keep them as completely separate patterns long-term? Thanks for the information and for making this such an accessible pattern.
Hi Lynn,
There are five sizes now in the original adult sizes pattern: to fit 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10-inch circumference hands. I just broke the sizes in the pattern up with parentheses leaving the original sizes as is and adding the final larger sizes in the second set of parentheses. In the second set of parentheses are the two new larger sizes. I hope that helps.
The patterns are two separate patterns and I plan on keeping them that way.
Thanks for asking and I hope that clarifies a bit.
Susan
Thanks so much for the little mitts pattern, I've been waiting for it:)Mittens are my favorite thing to knit and I have several grandchildren and other little folk in my life who will be getting some now.
Adorable mittens, mine are OTN---and I just got my sheep in the mail yesterday, so WOW for the sweater patterns!!! I had seen the little cutouts on the Juniper Moon Farm blog and could not resist. Now I may have to knit them some sweaters before they go on the tree!
These mittens look warm & toasty. They would be perfect for the family as it is turning chilly here in S.W. Washington St.
Are they jacquard / computer knitted or flat knitted?
Sweater,
The mittens are knit in the round:)
Susan
I was looking for a mitten pattern and this looks perfect. I can't wait to start them!
I got your book, ITTY-BITTY TOYS, and absolutely LOVE it!! Well done. I made the sisters for our granddaughter, and currently am making the bird-and-egg for her sister, who loves birds.
I did find it easier to work two pieces at once -- for example, the bird wing I did using the magic loop method, and ended up with what I think is a finer result, plus no sewing pieces together. For the beak, I used two double-point needles, but pulled the yarn around (keeping stitches all on one needle) which, in effect, is a form of knitting in the round; I found the result again more finished and less work than having to sew two tiny pieces together.
I look forward to knitting more of your wonderful designs. Keep creating, as there are many children out there awaiting your magical designs!
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