Feather & Fan Fingerless Mitts

morgybear
Tue, 07 Jan 2025 22:38:38 GMT

Cast on 42 sts — perfect for 2 repeats
Cast on Twisted German / Old Norwegian for stretch
with contrast brown yarn — will p/u sts & add ribbing later
knit 4 rows as starting foundation

row 5: begin k1 p1 k1 (pattern x 2) k1 p1 k1
row 6: slip 1st stitch, k1, purl to last 2, k1, slip last stitch
row 7: knit all stitches
row 8: slip 1, k1, purl, k1, slip 1

instead of all k2tog, used k2tog tbl for left pattern side decreases: (k2tog) x 3, (yo+k1) x 6, (k2tog tbl) x 3

considered doing this project in the round, but I don’t yet know how to make a thumb gusset without pattern instructions

12-27-2024

The last project I worked on, I tried an edge treatment of two-stitch i-cord

on this project I just did k1 p1 k1
slipping the first and last stitch on the wrong side for a neater seam edge
and the purl stitch plus the slipped edge stitches have created a tidier, less bulky, and less complicated version of the i-cord edge !!!

01-07-2025

final row count:
Old Norwegian cast on + 3 rows
started pattern with row 4 YO and decreases
12 pattern repeats + 3 rows
Icelandic bind off

I love how the two-wide pattern repeat created a perfect shape for my hands! I didn’t add ribbing or even a thumb hole because it just looks so perfect as-is.

Finished the side seam by corset lacing the green yarn. Love it!!!

01-07-2025

a creativity & technique win:
I have done sooooo much research over the years trying to find an edge stitch combination that would be simple, clean, structured, and easy to accomplish

I’ve tried many different techniques by other people, but I didn’t like any of them very much

For this one I tried an extremely simple stitch combination:
edge stitches are knitted every other row, which creates a nice clean “slipped stitch” edge
then one purl stitch and one knit stitch before I go into the official pattern

This is the single nicest edge I have ever created on a knitting project — and it’s so much easier than any other technique I’ve tried!

Additional project idea:

I have enough yarn left to do a hat, and I have an idea for a pattern using Feather & Fan as the start and then decreasing YO to zero to make the crown of the hat.

24” circumference (±120 stitches) — repeat F&F 6 times plus spacer stitches
6–6½“ from crown to forehead (±36 rows + ribbing) — repeat 4 row pattern ±9 times