Guinevere fingerless mittens

Guinevere fingerless mittens

Guinevere fingerless mittens were inspired by Arthurian tales and coastal walks. I’m imagining mythical figures galloping along windswept beaches. A maiden is on a clifftop looking out to sea, maybe searching for her lover, while below her people are foraging for seaweeds and coastal flowers. Maybe they used these plants to dye yarns in the colours of these mittens!

The pattern for Guinevere is available to purchase here as a printed pattern. Alternatively, you can purchase it as a digital pdf download from the Being Knitterly Ravelry store. You can also buy a yarn pack for the Guinevere fingerless mittens.

This pattern is available in two versions: there’s one written for those who knit left-handed as well as the standard one for those who knit right-handed.

If you purchase the printed pattern and would like the pattern for knitting left-handed please say so in your order notes at check out.

See below for further details.

£4.60£19.50

Description

The Guinevere fingerless mittens feature a floral stranded colourwork motif on the back of the hand and a small allover pattern on the palm. You knit them seamlessly from cuff to fingers, then knit the folk-style thumbs last, with no shaping necessary.

The pattern for Guinevere fingerless mittens is available to purchase as a digital pdf download from the Being Knitterly Ravelry store, or here as a printed pattern.

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Digital pdf pattern

Available from the Being Knitterly Ravelry store.

Printed pattern booklet

The A4 pattern has 6 pages including:

  • Before You Start: notes, sizing, yarn, tension | gauge, and abbreviations.
  • Photo tutorial for the cable cast-on.
  • Charts.
  • Written instructions.

 

Guinevere yarn pack (blue flowers and violet flowers)

The yarn pack contains:

  • Five 25 g balls of Spindrift from Jamieson’s of Shetland, as well as a small amount of a smooth similar-weight waste yarn.

 

Pattern details

Sizes

Palm circumference: 18 (19:20:21) cm | 7 (7½:7¾:8¼) in.
Finished palm circumference: 17 (18:19:20) cm | 6 3/4 (7:7¼:7¾) in.
Finished length: 17 cm | 6¾ in.

Yarn

Jamieson’s of Shetland, Shetland Spindrift (4-ply; 100% Shetland wool; 105 m | 115 yds per 25 g ball).

Blue flowers colourway:

Yarn A: Burnt Umber 1190: 1 (1: 1: 1) x 25 g ball.
Yarn B: Oatmeal 337: 1 (1: 1: 1) x 25 g ball.
Yarn C: Eesit 105: 1 (1: 1: 1) x 25 g ball.
Yarn D: Nighthawk 1020: 1 (1: 1: 1) x 25 g ball.
Yarn E: Cloud 764: 1 (1: 1: 1) x 25 g ball.

Purple flowers colourway:

Yarn A: Aubretia 1300: 1 (1: 1: 1) x 25 g ball.
Yarn B: Lavender 617: 1 (1: 1: 1) x 25 g ball.
Yarn C: Orchid 547: 1 (1: 1: 1) x 25 g ball.
Yarn D: Violet 600: 1 (1: 1: 1) x 25 g ball.
Yarn E: Buttermilk 179: 1 (1: 1: 1) x 25 g ball.

Gauge | Tension

35 sts and 35 rounds per 10 cm over stranded colourwork stocking stitch after washing and blocking.

Needles & Accessories

Use a needle size that will result in the correct gauge after washing and blocking. Suggested needle sizes are:

2.50 mm | UK12 | US1–2 of your preferred method of knitting projects with small circumferences.
3.00 mm | UK11 | US3 of your preferred method of knitting projects with small circumferences.
Stitch marker.
Blunt-ended yarn or tapestry needle.

Other details

This pattern is available in two versions: the standard one for those who knit right-handed and an alternative one written for those who knit left-handed. If you purchase the printed pattern or kit and would like the pattern for knitting left-handed, please say so in your order notes at check out.

Most of you knit right-handed, that is, your stitches move from the left-hand to the right-hand needle as you knit.

Some of you knit left-handed, that is, your stitches move from the right-hand to the left-hand needle as you knit.

If you are a left-handed knitter who knits right-handed, that is your stitches move from the left-hand to the right-hand needle, you should use the pattern for knitting right-handed.

Designer: Nicki Merrall (Being Knitterly).
Sample knitters: Nicki Merrall and Mary Leeson.

Additional information

Weight N/A
Dimensions N/A
pattern-or-yarn pack

Yarn pack – blue flowers, Yarn pack – violet flowers, Kit – blue flowers (pattern & yarn pack), Printed pattern only

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