Category: mittens

1. Basic Mitten Pattern by Ann Budd in The Knitter’s Handy Book of Patterns: Basic Designs in Multiple Sizes & Gauges (Interweave)

Patterns in a table/grid format for a wide variety of gauges and sizes.

2. Mitered Mittens by Elizabeth Zimmermann in Elizabeth Zimmermann’s Knitter’s Almanac

Mittens based on the shaping principle of miters.

3. Warmest Mittens by Kris Percival in Knitting Pretty

Knit in the round with thick worsted wool. This pattern fits an average woman’s hand if you tend to knit tightly.

4. Basic Glove Pattern by Ann Budd in The Knitter’s Handy Book of Patterns: Basic Designs in Multiple Sizes & Gauges (Interweave)

Patterns in grid format for a wide variety of gauges and sizes.

5. NHM #7 by Terri Shea in SELBUVOTTER: Biography of a Knitting Tradition

Norwegian stranded mittens.

6. Easy Mittens by Sue Dial in One Skein Wonders

These mittens are knitted with one skein of yarn.

7. Elegant-and-Easy Cable Mittens for the Family by Marci Richardson in 101 Designer One-Skein Wonders: A world of possibilities inspired by just one skein

These mittens are designed to fit a small child, a large child, a small adult, and a large adult.

8. Norwegian Snail Mittens by Adrian Bizilia in The Knitter’s Book of Yarn: The Ultimate Guide to Choosing, Using, and Enjoying Yarn

Norwegian stranded mittens.

9. Scandinavian Spots Mittens by Cheryl Murray in 60 Quick Knits: 20 Hats*20 Scarves*20 Mittens in Cascade 220

Norwegian stranded mittens.

10. Welig by Robin Melanson in Knitting New Mittens and Gloves: Warm and Adorn Your Hands in 28 Innovative Ways

Cabled gloves.

This week’s list of free knitting patterns.

New Knitting Patterns This Week

• Lion Brand has the Spice Route Shawl knitted with Superwash Merino Cashmere Yarn.
• Hillary Hunt at My Purls of Wisdom posted The Organic Mushroom Hat
• Crystal Palace Yarns has Merino 5 Pocket Fingerless Mitts
• Amanda J Smith created some The North Face inspired mittens, Wicker Pattern Mittens
• Jen Bianchi at Knitter’s Row knitted up some cable wrist warmers, Easy Peasy Fingerless Mitts
• Purl Soho at Purl Bee has an ingenious hoodie/cowl all in one, Spring Hoodie

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Favorite Knitting Patterns

• Petra Hoy created used a beautiful stitch pattern in her Zinnia Dahlia hat pattern.
• Turvid has a simple but elegant scarf, One Row Lace Scarf
Princess Mitts by Jennifer Hagan is a lovely cabled fingerless mittens pattern.

Know of any new free knitting patterns? Leave them in the comments!

Knitty.com today released new knitting patterns and knitting articles as a bonus to its Winter 2006 issue.

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Thermal by Laura Chau is a longjohn inspired top knit with a fine guage yarn.
Dragonfly by Laura Zukaite is a flirty knitted sweater with a dragonfly inspired neckline.
Elbac by by Laura is a knitted scarf that uses ribbing stitches for a reversible scarf.
Mad River Mittens by by Symeon North are great looking felted mittens with buttons.

It’s not a stash…it’s a collection by Kate Antonova covers collecting vintage yarn.
Cheating at color theory by Julie Theaker covers using Hue, Intensity, and Value when selecting yarns colors for knitted projects.