I am now back in England and we had a beautiful hour or two of sun this afternoon (!) in which to take some photos of my new mitts. These are the mitts which I was knitting last week while in South Africa communing with elephants.
This is the pattern Wedgewood Mitts, designed by me. I designed them to play around with a lovely shipment of Kate Davies’ new yarn, Buachaille. The original pair, made for Leah, was in a very pretty mid-blue with white edging. Just before leaving for Johannesburg, I tossed a skein of this lovely spring green, called Yaffle, and the remaining white from the first pair of mitts, into my suitcase.
I made a few small modifications from my original pattern. Here is what I did:
- Cast on an extra 4 stitches (48)
- Worked an extra two rows of corrugated ribbing
- Decreased 4 stitches after ribbing
- Worked an extra 2 rows before starting gusset
- Worked three rows less before adding white edging
Basically, this added 4 stitches just to the cuff, to make the cuff a tiny bit more roomy. I also made the cuff portion of the mitt slightly longer, while making the finger portion of the mitt slightly shorter.
I am very happy with how they worked out, and am especially charmed with the combination of this spring green and the white (Yaffle and Ptarmigan in Buachaille-speak). Obviously, I am not the only one to think so. I had finished the first mitt and cast on for the second when I noticed that Kate Davies had designed a new hat for release at the Edinburgh Yarn Festival this weekend:

© Kate Davies Designs
I absolutely love this design, which was inspired by a collection of Hornsea pottery designed by John Clappison in the 1960s; go read Kate’s post here. Sadly, I cannot be at the festivities in Edinburgh this weekend, but I did try to alleviate my misery by ordering a kit to make this hat! Just think how pretty it will look with the mitts.
Happy Sunday everyone!
This colour is the best! What lovely patterns!
Lovely mitts, well done!
Very nice! I like the blue and the green.
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