Actual knitting content on the blog! Fear not, even though there have been a lack of posts about knitting and spinning, I’ve still been doing both. It’s just a lack of time to photograph the finished objects! But I have one here, and there will hopefully be more to post in the next few weeks. They knit up in three days (about 5 hours in the evenings after dinner and before bed), and used about 225 yards between the two colors (125 of the blue and 100 of the yellow). The yarn is a nice, densely spun wool completely sourced and produced in the USA from Rambouillet sheep, using natural dyes that surprisingly didn’t bleed when I gave these a wash and block. The yarn has incredible stitch definition and feels really sturdy which is perfect for mittens. I only made one big modification to the pattern – I switched the thumb to a “sore thumb” instead of the charted traditional Selbu Thumb since I find a sore thumb fits better. A pretty easy modification to make, just shifting the thumb gusset placement over a few stitches. Speaking of the thumb, I love that cute little owl worked into the thumb chart. Really happy with how these came out between the colors and the fit! Finished them just in time for the slow creep of Fall’s chill.
Pattern:
Night Owl Mittens
Designer:
Jorid Linvik
Needles: US 1.5 (2.5 mm) for the cuff, US 2 (2.75mm) for the mitten body
Yarn: HiKoo by Skacel American B.R.A.N.D. in Yellowstone (Yellow-108) and Hawaii Volcanoes (Blue-102)
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