Thursday, December 22, 2011

Quick Zig Zag Fingerless Mitts

The repeat is so quick and easy one afternoon and you got it :D

They are also very hard to get a good photo of not that it had anything to do with the mitts.......I had the hardest time trying to get a shot with the camera ( nothing new lol )........it was dark weather the whole week, so the cell phones even with lights on them were only so so but better than what I had so......




Zig Zag Fingerless Mitt
Size 8 and 6 US needles dpns or cable needles
Gauge 4 stitches by 5 ½ rows per 1 inch done in stocking stitch
58 yards of bulky weight ( Yarn Bee’s Icelandic Jewels in Marbled Onyx )
A few inches of scrape yarn in contrasting color

k = knit
knit = knit to end of row
kf/b = knit into the front and back of the next stitch
k2tog = knit 2 stitches together
m1 = make new stitch by picking up bar between stitches and knit through the back loop
psso = pass slid stitch over
p = purl
sl 1 = slide one stitch ( purl wise )
yo = yarn over needle
( )x = repeat directions inside brackets as many times as indicated

Both mitts made the same

Cast on 31 stitches, join in the round
1 -2 ) knit
3 ) ( sl 1, k1, psso, k2, yo, k2 )x 5, k1
4 ) knit
5 - 8 ) repeat rows 3 and 4 twice
9 ) k3, ( yo, k2, k2tog, k2 )x 4, yo, k2, k2tog
10 ) knit
11 - 12 ) repeat rows 9 and 10
13 ) repeat row 9

Change to size 6 needles
14 ) kf/b, knit to last stitch, kf/b
15 ) kf/b, ( sl 1, k1, psso, k2, yo, k2 )x 4, k1, kf/b
16 ) k2, kf/b, knit to 3 last stitches, kf/b, k2, knit the first 3 stitches off of the first needle onto the last
17 ) ( sl 1, k1, psso, k2, yo, k2 )x 5, k1, k6 onto scrap yarn, slide stitches back onto the first needle, k6
18 ) knit to last 6 stitches, k2tog x 3
19 ) ( sl 1, k1, psso, k2, yo, k2 )x 5, k2tog x 2
20 ) knit to last 2 stitches, k2tog
21 ) k3, ( yo, k2, k2tog, k2 )x 4, yo, k2, k2tog
22 ) knit
23 - 26 ) repeat rows 21 and 22 twice
27 ) knit
Bind off.


Thumb

Using size 6 needles
Pick up the stitches for the thumb by carefully removing the scrap yarn and placing the stitches on dpns as you do so. It’s easiest to use 2 dpns one for the top and one for the bottom rows. Rearranging onto 3 needles as you knit the first row.
1 ) Knit to the end of the bottom row of the thumb stitches, m1, knit to the end of the top row, m1, join in the round
2 - 3 ) knit
Bind off, weave in ends.

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