Christmas Mittens 2024
A very warm welcome to our Christmas mittens 2024! It is so lovely that we’ll be knitting together again, especially when we are starting on such a sparkling day as Nobel Day. We hope you are ready with your yarn and needles for this year’s Christmas mittens. Let’s get going!
NOTE To be sure that your mittens will be the correct measurements as given in the pattern, it is important that, before you begin knitting the mittens, you make a gauge swatch to ensure that your gauge matches the given gauge. Here’s all the information you need about materials, gauge, and sizing.
LEFT-HAND MITTEN
Cuff
With dpn U. S. 1.5 / 2.5 mm and color 2:
CO 60 sts. Divide the sts evenly over 4 dpn (= 15 sts per needle). Join to work in the round and pm for beginning of round.
Latvian Braid
Rnd 1: *K1 with color 2, k1 with color 3*; rep * to * around.
NOTE When working Rnds 2 and 3, hold the yarn in front of work throughout!
Rnd 2: Holding both strands in front of work, with each color change, bring new color under the yarn just used: *P1 with color 2, p1 with color 3*; rep * to * around. See video
Rnd 3: Holding both strands in front of work, with each color change, bring new color over the yarn just used: *P1 with color 2, p1 with color 3*; rep * to * around. See video
Two-color Ribbing
Ribbing Rnd: *P1 with color 2, k1 with color 3*; rep *-* around.
Work another 3 rnds of Ribbing Rnd.
Knit 1 rnd with color 3.
Knit 1 rnd with color 2.
HAND
Work pattern in stockinette (= knit every stitch around) following chart A – left-hand mitten, chart Rows 1-26 (sts 1-60).
RIGHT-HAND MITTEN
Work as for left-hand mitten, but follow chart A – right-hand mitten.
CHART A – left-hand mitten
CHART A – right-hand mitten
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