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These fair isle mitts are a quick knit, using just 4 shades of Jamieson’s Shetland Spindrift 4ply wool yarn. The pattern is suitable for knitters who are comfortable working stranded colourwork in the round.

The mitts are worked bottom up in the round with thumb gussets, and feature X & O motifs on the top of the hand, with an intuitive one-by-one filler stitch on the palm side. There are charts for left and right mitts.

Sizing: to fit an average size woman’s hand 7-7.5” (18-19cm).

Skills/Techniques: stranded colourwork; knitting in the round; reading charts; keeping track of stitch numbers (for thumb gusset); increases and decreases; casting on in the middle of a round; yarn dominance.

Yarn: the mitts call for 4 shades of Jamieson’s Shetland Spindrift. Sample is knit in Shaela, Black, Lomond and Eesit.

Needles: 2.5mm, 2.75mm, 3mm and 3.25mm. If there is no direct US equivalent, the mitts can be knit with US sizes 2 & 3. However the range of sizes called for gives more control over the final fit.

Pattern Pages: the pdf has 7 pages -

1. Introduction, materials, gauge
2. Pattern Notes - joining in the round; yarn dominance; casting on in the middle of a round; M1 increases
3. Instructions; abbreviations
4. Chart A - Left Hand Mitt
5. Chart B - Right Hand Mitt
6. Motif outline for Top of Hand - shown as black dots on a white background - suitable for colouring in your own colour scheme
7. As for page 6, but for Palm of Hand