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December 24, 2018
January 4, 2019

Chester Basin Mitts

Project info
Chester Basin Mittens by Fiona Alice
Knitting
Hands → Mittens
me
Medium
Needles & yarn
US 4 - 3.5 mm
US 7 - 4.5 mm
1,780 yards
Circus Tonic Handmade Single Ply Fingering
2 skeins = 800.5 yards (732.0 meters), 200 grams
Pink
Skein Sisters in Dulwich Hill, New South Wales
Manos del Uruguay Fino
2 skeins = 979.9 yards (896.0 meters), 200 grams
Blue
Morris and Sons in Sydney, New South Wales
Notes

Mods:

  • Holding yarn double
  • Cast on with 3.5mm (for ribbing)
  • Cast on 38 sts
  • Increase to 44sts for popcorn stitch
  • Used 4.5mm for body
  • worked 24 rounds (instead of 20) of corn-on-a-cob stitch before increasing for gusset.
  • increased to 62 sts for gusset
  • 50 sts for top body of mitt

I loooooove these! <3

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December 24, 2018
January 4, 2019
 
About this pattern
Chester Basin Mittens
by Fiona Alice
from Take Heart: A Transatlantic Knitting Journey
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Fino
by Manos del Uruguay
Light Fingering
70% Merino, 30% Silk
490 yards / 100 grams

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Single Ply Fingering
by Circus Tonic Handmade
Fingering
100% Merino
400 yards / 100 grams

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  • Project created: December 23, 2018
  • Finished: January 4, 2019
  • Updated: February 21, 2019
  • Progress updates: 7 updates