Even before I designed my Floribunda Cap (with a brand new yarn that was then soon to be available at my LYS, Gosh Yarn It!) I knew that I would also design a companion mitt pattern.
The yarn, Knit One, Crochet Too Après Ski,
is a soft blend of wool and nylon featuring really bright colors.
With GYI's request for a new colorwork class project using this outstandingly brilliant color, I immediately thought of flowers. The mitts have an optional rose in duplicate stitch on the back of each hand. The pattern has two sizes to fit most girls (women).
The hat is a great beginner two-handed stranded colorwork project. The rolled stockinette edge goes quickly to get right into the stranded colorwok. The leaf border is the simplest kind of stranded colorwork... limited to three stitches between color changes, it requires little attention to the lengths of floats. When you get to the rose motif rows, I recommend "trapping" some of the floats. For more information on all this, please see my popular blog post, Two-Handed Stranded Colorwork Tutorial.
Any two 100g skeins of worsted/aran weight yarn should be plenty to make both the cap and a pair of mitts.
Details
Finished Mitts Measurements
Finished Mitts Measurements
5¾
(6¾)” [14.5 (17 cm)] hand circumference (measured around palm) and 8¼ (9)” [21
(23) cm)] long when unrolled
Yarn Required Worsted weight yarn
50 (60) yd [46 (55) m] Color A
50 (60) yd [46 (55) m] Color B
Shown in:
Knit One, Crochet Too Après Ski (70% wool, 30% nylon; 197 yd [180 m], 100 g)
Color A: #238 Cherry Bomb, 1 skein
Color B: #589 Colorado Spruce, 1 skein
Needles (Adjust size if necessary to get correct gauge)
Size US 7 [4.5 mm] needles (two circular or set of double-pointed). Adjust needle size if necessary to obtain the correct gauge.
The Floribunda Mitts pattern is now available for a limited time at a special introductory price of $2.50. This discount ends midnight Sunday, April 24. The regular price of the pattern will be $5.
Thanks for reading and happy knitting!
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