What you'll need
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Product Description
These cute mitts will keep your hands warm whilst leaving your fingers free to dial your phone, knit or read a book.
The chicken mesh styled Coop cable creates a beautifully elastic fabric, and the detail of the gusset with the cable stitches travelling along the edges of the gusset exemplify the care taken with this design.
Sized to fit teens, women and men these are a great project for the advanced beginner.
This pattern is available with coordinating cowl, mitts and bonus patterns in the e-book “Coop set”, or you can purchase the patterns separately
Coop Mitts information
Sizes Small (Medium, Large) to fit hands 13 - 15 (15 - 17.5, 17.5 - 20) cm / 5 -6 (6-7, 7-8)”
Yarn White Gum Wool Ethical Merino DK 100% merino wool 100g / 236m
90( 95, 106) m / 98 (103, 115) yds
Needles 4 mm (US 6) or size required to obtain gauge
Notions Cable needle Darning needle Three stitch markers
Notes The mitts are worked in the round using your preferre
Coop Mitts by Justine Turner
What is Being Made
Coop Mitts are cosy winter mittens designed in three adult sizes: small (to fit hands 13-15 cm / 5-6"), medium (to fit hands 15-17.5 cm / 6-7"), and large (to fit hands 17.5-20 cm / 7-8"). These are original knitwear designs created by Justine Turner, offering practical hand warmth with a refined construction suitable for advanced knitters.
Knitting Techniques and Construction
The Coop Mitts employ several essential knitting techniques to create their structure and visual interest. The pattern incorporates cable work, specifically left cross (LC) cables, which add texture and dimension to the finished mittens. Shaping is achieved through strategic increases and decreases worked throughout the pattern, allowing the mittens to fit the hand contours properly across all three sizes.
The construction method uses flat knitting on straight needles, with pieces that are subsequently seamed together. This approach provides control over the cable placement and ensures consistent sizing across the three options.
Stitches Used
The pattern utilizes fundamental knitting stitches combined with shaping techniques:
- Knit (k) - the primary stitch forming the fabric base
- Knit front and back (kfb) - an increase method that creates new stitches by working into both the front and back loops of a single stitch
- Knit two together (k2tog) - a decrease that reduces stitch count by combining two stitches into one
- Left cross (LC) cable - a cable technique that creates twisted rope-like texture by crossing stitches over one another
Yarn and Materials
The Coop Mitts pattern calls for White Gum Wools Ethical Merino DK, a 100% merino wool yarn in DK weight. The yardage requirements are 90 (95, 106) metres / 98 (103, 115) yards for the small (medium, large) sizes respectively, with each skein providing 236 metres from a 100g ball.
Needles required are 4mm (US 6) or the size needed to achieve the correct gauge for your tension. The pattern also specifies a cable needle for working the cable crosses, though this is a standard notions item for cable knitting.
Difficulty Level
Rated as an advanced project, the Coop Mitts are designed for experienced knitters who are comfortable with cable techniques, shaping increases and decreases, and reading pattern instructions with multiple size options. The combination of cable work and fitted sizing requires solid foundational knitting skills.
```Specifications
| Brand: | Independent Designer |
| Yarn Weight: | DK |
| Designer: | JustJussi |
| Craft: | Knitting |
| Format: | Downloadable PDF |
| Languages: | English |
| Number of Patterns: | 1 |
| Skill Level: | Advanced |
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