Originally Published for the Fall 2018 Ficstitches Yarns Kit Club.

Josie’s Mitts were inspired by a knit glove pattern that was approved by the Red Cross during WW1 for knitters to make and send to warm the hands of soldiers overseas. This deceptively simple twist on the standard slip stitch has an extra yarn over giving more options of where to put the hook. By alternating which loop is used on each row, the resulting fabric has the look and stretch of knitting made with a hook.

He runs his thumb along the back of my hand, over the mitt’s ribbing. “I was wondering,” he says slowly, “if you’d make me a pair of these?”
I freeze in place. A commotion of feelings collides somewhere in my chest.
Make him a pair of mitts.
Who does he think he is? Like I have time to sit around and crochet for him?
- Excerpt from “Unraveling: Wolves of Argonne” by C. Jane Reid