I love the deep saturated purple of this yarn; it makes me think of royal purple. When I showed these fingerless gloves to a friend, she said the quilting/lattice pattern looked like a Fabergé egg. Hence, Fabergé Royale Mitts. While I didn’t add any beading to these gloves, it would be easy to add a large bead to the centre of the diamond to make these even more elegant! The top edge of the glove and thumb are accented with purl and eyelet rows that recall a crown.

The corrugated ribbing of this pattern and the Latvian braid require colourwork (working with two colours at one time), but the cluster quilting pattern is a slip stitch pattern with only one colour being worked on any individual row. If you prefer to do your ribbing in a single colour, the only colourwork you would need to do would be the Latvian braid.

Both the corrugated ribbing and the cluster quilting pattern impact the amount of give and stretchiness of the mitt. I have written instructions for two sizes of mitt, small and medium. Be aware, though, that because there is less give to these mitts, you might want to cast on for the larger size unless your hands are quite small. Instructions are given for small size with changes for medium in brackets. Medium actually measures about 3 3/8”/8.5 cm across (6 ¾”/17 cm circumference) and will stretch to about 7 ½” to 8”/19 to 20 cm palm circumference. Small will actually measure about 3”/7.5 cm across (6”/15 cm circumference) and should stretch to about 6 ¾”/17 cm to 7 ¼”/18 cm palm circumference.

Yardages: finished mitts weigh approximately 50 grams, which is the weight of one skein of DROPS Alpaca. The MC uses slightly more than the contrast colour, but roughly half a skein for each colour should be enough to make this pair.

This pattern has not been test knitted. Please feel free to contact me with questions or any errors you might find.

May 10, 2016. Please ensure you download the most recent PDF, as there have been changes and corrections made.