Fields full of crops…
This pattern is a part of the cycle “Tripillia” and it refers to the heritage of a big ancient civilisation Cucuteni-Tripillia which was located in Southeastern Europe including modern Ukraine. For communication, they used logographs (written characters that represent a semantic component of a language, such as a word). But also logographs were used in decorative arts.
The pattern of these wrist warmers has a logograph that means “field with crop”. A rhomb means a field, and each square means a grain. The main specialization of Tripillia people was agriculture, so logographs related to fields and crops were very common.
These wrist warmers are knitted bottom-up in the round, with thin bands of seed stitch from both bottom and top. The body of the wrist warmers is decorated with stranded colorwork. The pattern comes in two sizes and contains clear, full instructions and is supplied with multiple links on captioned video tutorials.

Number of pages: 7

Skill level: intermediate

Estimated time spent: 1.5-2.5 hours approx., depending on size and your skills

Skills required

• knitting in the small round
• stranded colorwork

Techniques involved

• seed/moss stitch
• elastic cast on (proposed in the video or one of your choice)
• elastic BO
• jogless colorwork
• colorwork inside out

Sizes and finished measurements (appr.)
S-M: 19.5 cm/7.7” circumference and 14.8 cm/5.8” length (works for palm circumferences 19.5-21.5 cm/ 7.7-8.5”)
M-L: 22 cm/8.7” circumference and 16 cm/6.3” length (works for palm circumferences 22-24 cm/8.7-9.4” )
These wrist warmers are meant to be worn with 0-2 cm/0-0.8” of negative ease. They could be used as arm warmers or cuffs as well, covering your arms over jacket’s or cardigan’s sleeves. Choose a bigger size in this case.
How to figure out your size: measure your palm with measuring tape across the widest part at the base of it (where the thumb begins, including it).

Meterage/yardage (appr.)
S-M: MC - 32 g/1.13 oz, or 35 m/38 yd; CC - 12 g/0.4 oz, or 14 m/15 yd
M-L: MC - 43 g/1.5 oz, or 47 m/51 yd; CC - 13 g/0.5 oz, or 14 m/15 yd
This doesn’t include swatch making.

Needles
Circular or interchangeable needles at least 80 cm/32” long of sizes 5.5 mm/US9/UK5 and
6 mm/US10/UK4.

Gauge
16.4 stitches and 19.6 rounds in 10 cm/16.7 stitches and 19.9 rounds in 4’’ in colorwork in the small round with needles 6 mm/US10/UK4 after blocking.
Why is my gauge so precise?
I believe that the most accurate method to determine the gauge is to measure the whole length and width of the blocked swatch and to divide each value correspondingly to the amount of the stitches and rows/rounds that you made to create your swatch. In this case, you will get fractions. Rounding these fractions to smaller or bigger whole numbers will lead to inaccurate measurements of the finished object. Only the sum of all the stitches and rows/rounds used to make an object could be rounded to maximum half of the whole number.

Additional materials and tools:
1 stitch marker