Silver Willow Mittens by Mandy Furney

Silver Willow Mittens

Knitting
September 2025
both are used in this pattern
Sport (12 wpi) ?
26 stitches and 44 rows = 4 inches
in Palm stitch pattern
US 2½ - 3.0 mm
219 - 230 yards (200 - 210 m)
O/S adult
English

Designed for the 2025 Silver Willow fibre festival in Saskatoon (SK, Canada), these mittens are a collaboration between Manitoban designer Mandy Furney and Albertan dyer Numana Yarns featuring a beautiful variegated yarn paired with a solid mini.

Instructions are provided for both full and fingerless mitten options.

Full mittens use approximately 150m of variegated sport weight yarn and 40m of a solid fingering weight yarn.

Fingerless mittens use approximately 130m of of sport weight and 40m of fingering weight yarns.

Materials needed include needles to work in the round and achieve gauge, 2 stitch markers (start of round and increase marker), scrap yarn to hold thumb stitches, yarn needle to weave ends, and an optional crochet hook to catch dip stitches.

The pattern is currently limited to kits and direct sales at the Silver Willow fibre festival in 2025.
It will be released by the designer for digital sale in 2026.

Finished dimensions:
9.5cm across flat palm
23 cm from cuff to fingertip of full mitten
18.5cm from cuff to top of fingerless mitt