Target Wave Mittens
September 4th, 2006 | View Comments
Pattern: Target Wave Mittens, from Knitting Nature and reprinted in Interweave Knits Fall 2006
Yarn: Plymouth Encore, #848 (navy) and #208 (white), oddballs
Needles: Addi Turbos, US 6 and US 8
Started last, finished first!
These are a very quick knit. I made the Child’s Small size and I’d guess each mitten took a couple of hours to make, including the seaming.
A few quick notes about the pattern:
- This pattern probably won’t work very well with a 100% acrylic yarn. You really need to block the finished mittens aggressively to wind up with a mitten-shaped object. Plymouth Encore took the blocking well, but other acrylic yarns might not. Right off the needles, the mittens are vaguely fish- or submarine-shaped, tapering to a point at the fingertips and the thumb sticking straight out at a very un-thumblike angle.
- The pattern can be easily converted to knitting in the round, although you’ll probably want to employ some sort of jogless jog technique.
- Having a model with small hands and opposable thumbs greatly increases the charm of the finished mittens.
Startitis: I’ll beat it yet!
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CogKnition posted this on September 4th, 2006 @ 4:54pm in Baby Items, Finished Objects, Hats & Mittens | Permalink to "Target Wave Mittens"
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Very cool mittens!
Lovely mittens! I’ve been waiting (and waiting, and waiting) for my IK to arrive, I have some small hand models needing mittens for the coming cold weather. :0)
They’re cute! I just made a pair in a different acrylic (Red Heart Soft) and they started looking more like mittens after my daughter wore them around for a while.
lovely mittens – did you find any errors in the pattern? I’m up to ‘shape fingertip target’ and think that it should be RS, not WS.
regards, Amelia