Selbu style mittens are my favourite accessories to knit. Bold and beautiful, they cheer up your soul and warm your hands amid bleak midwinter days. This design is a refined version of a pair that I made for my husband seven years ago. He loved them and in the past seven years when winter arrived, he would ask for “the mittens”. Hence, I named the pattern Selbu Revisited.

TECHNIQUES USED
• Long-tail cast on
• Two-colour alternating long-tail cast on
• Knitting and purling in the round
• Increasing and decreasing
• Working with DPNs or Magic Loop
• Reading a chart
• Stranded colour work

SIZE
One size - Men’s medium / Women’s large per gauge given in pattern
Size up or down by using larger/smaller needles

FINISHED MEASUREMENTS
Hand circumference: 8¾”/ 22cm
Length from cuff to tip: 11”/ 28cm

YARN
Approx 40 g each of fingering weight wool or cashmere (6/26) in brown (MC) and gold (CC)

TOOLS
• 2.5mm (US 1) needle
• waste yarn
• tapestry needle

GAUGE
34 sts & 38 rnds = 4” / 10 cm over stranded colour work on a 2.5mm (US 1) needle, after blocking.