Snails and Mushrooms and Gnomes – Oh My! Adventure with us down near the soil and see what is going on under those tulips.

Degree of Difficulty
This pattern is perfect for the knitter who is familiar with mitten construction and has experience with stranded knitting and reading charts. There are some long floats so experience in catching those will also be helpful.

Materials:
• Needles - US 2 – 2.75mm circulars for Magic Loop or a set of DPN’s (or size needed to get gauge) PS – I never use DPN’s so I won’t be any help at telling you which stitches go on which needles!
• Yarn – 50g each of MC and CC in Fingering Weight yarn will be plenty
• Stitch markers (mark the thumb gusset for easy placement of increases!)
• Scrap yarn or stitch holder for live thumb stitches (I use a safety pin!)
• Darning needle

Gauge:
• 9 stitches by 10 rows = 2.5cm in stranded colorwork

Size:
• Ladies Medium/Large (21cm (8.25”) from top of cuff to tip of finger, 20.5cm (8”) circumference at the fingers. This is blocked measurements)

Techniques used:
Purl
knit
Ssk
K2tog
ML
MR
M (Knit front and back)

Sample was knit using Schoppel Wolle Zauberball 100 in their Tea Ceremony colour way