Cottage Core Mittens by Darcie Anderson

Cottage Core Mittens

Knitting
January 2023
Sport (12 wpi) ?
28 stitches and 32 rows = 4 inches
US 2½ - 3.0 mm
US 1½ - 2.5 mm
328 - 437 yards (300 - 400 m)
Made-to-measure
English
This pattern is available as a free Ravelry download

For these cosy, colourwork, made-to-measure mittens inspired by all things cottage core, you’ll need 50g of your main colour in a fingering/sport weight yarn, plus 15g each of 4 contrast colours, also in fingering or sport weight.
I used:
MC: Drops alpaca-off white (0100)
CC1: Drops alpaca-red (3620)
CC2: Drops alpaca-dusty pink (3112)
CC3: Drops alpaca-golden rod (2923)
CC4: Drops alpaca-mineral blue (7139)

Included is an excel sheet to help you calculate the gauge you need for a perfect fit mitt, but I made mine to 28 stitches and 32 rows in 10x10cm on 3mm needles for a finished mitt with circumference of 23.5cm.

Techniques: Knitting in the round, Latvian braid, k2tog, ssk, stranded colourwork, duplicate stitch, Kitchener stitch, afterthought thumb

Test knit by @crispyerknits