Salka Mitttens by Gudrun Hannele

Salka Mitttens

Knitting
November 2020
Fingering (14 wpi) ?
36 stitches and 38 rows = 4 inches
in Stranded colourwork, worked on larger needles, after blocking.
US 0 - 2.0 mm
US 1½ - 2.5 mm
Women’s medium
English Finnish Icelandic Norwegian

SALKA
These very stylistically minimalist and elegant mittens are preserved in the textile museum. The knitter remains unknown, but the mittens seem to have been knitted for very slender hands. They are knitted with two colors: natural black as the main color, and white as the contrast color. The cuff starts with purl rounds and then the rest of the mitten is knitted in stocking stitch. The thumb is picked up and knitted afterwards. The main pattern is an easily memorised one.