Nalu Mitts
Finished
November 12, 2016
November 15, 2016

Nalu Mitts

Project info
Nalu Mitts by Leila Raven
Knitting
HandsFingerless Gloves/Mitts
Maureen
Needles & yarn
US 3 - 3.25 mm
23 stitches and 36 rows = 4 inches
in stockinette stitch in the round
Dale Garn Falk
Notes

I gave this pattern a medium difficulty rating because it uses twisted stitches in the traveling stitches and some seed stitch as a filler stitch, but it’s really not a difficult pattern to knit and is actually very enjoyable considering it has so many twisted stitches. It would be a challenge for a novice knitter, I think, but an intermediate knitter should have no difficulty. The pattern itself is well written and has great charts. But I did have to make a modification.

Modification:

As is often the case with fingerless mitts patterns, I had to change the rate of increase for the thumb gusset from every other round to every third round and then knit 6 more plain rounds after the last increase round in order to have a gusset that is long enough to fit me comfortably. My stitch gauge is spot on, but my row gauge was 8.5 rows per inch instead of 9 rows per inch, plus I need the thumb gusset to be 2.75 inches deep measured along the line of increases.

Because I ended up knitting around 11 extra rounds before putting the thumb stitches on a holder, I knit one extra repeat of the cable pattern, but it looks fabulous and the mitts fits extremely well.

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by Dale Garn
Sport
100% Wool
116 yards / 50 grams

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  • Project created: November 12, 2016
  • Updated: January 4, 2017
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