miko's mittens

A pair of cozy mittens to match “Blee’s Hat”, these mittens knit up fast and are interchangeable, so if one gets lost, it’s easy to make a replacement.  If you find that you need to adjust the size, use a heavier gauge of needle and wool for larger mittens, and a smaller gauge and finer wool for smaller mittens.   The important thing is that you create a firm, but still flexible, fabric.

you’ll need:

• 4mm needle for working in the round (your choice of dpns or circular needles
• 100g light worsted weight yarn (sample uses Malabrigo Seis Cabos, with 10-15g left over)
• 1 darning needle for sewing in ends
• Scrap piece of yarn or flexible stitch holder
• 3 stitch markers, 2 of which should be locking “safety pin” style markers.

before knitting this pattern, you should know how to...

• cast on and knit in the round
• knit (abbreviated “k”)
• purl (abbreviated “p”)
• skyp:  slip 1 stitch, knit the next, yarn over, and pass the slipped stitch over the yarn over and knit stitch
• knit two together (abbreviated k2tog) or any right-leaning decrease you prefer to substitute.
• skp decrease (slip 1, knit one, pass slipped stitch over). This is an actual decrease, unlike the skyp.
• M1k and m1p — any non “holey” decrease can be substituted.  If you wish to mirror the increases, you certainly can do so.