Celestial Mitts

£5

(Excluding VAT)

Designed to accompany the Celestial Cowl, the Celestial Mitts are inspired by the night sky. The stars decrease in density from the start to the end of the mitts, choose colours to either mimic the sky and stars or something completely different.

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Sizing

Sizes: 1 (2, 3)
Finished hand circumference: 7 (8, 9)” / 18 (20.5, 23) cm
To measure the circumference of your hand measure your palm horizontally just below your knuckles (at the widest part of your hand), keeping your fingers relaxed.
These mitts are designed to be worn with either zero ease or up to 1” of positive ease, so if you’re between sizes I would recommend choosing the larger size.
The sample is shown in size 1 on 6.5” / 16.5cm circumference hands.

Yarn

Main colour (background colour): Fingering weight yarn
32 (43, 52) grams
140 (188, 228) yards
128 (172, 208) metres
Contrast colour (stars colour): Fingering weight yarn
9 (12, 14) grams
36 (48, 56) yards
33 (44, 51) metres

Suggested Yarn

Main colour: 1 skein of Beehive Yarns Barbarella, colour ‘Lady Midnight’ (75% SW Merino, 20% Nylon, 5% Stellina) - 100 grams / 437 yards / 400 metres per skein.
Contrast colour: 1 skein of Beehive Yarns Bardot, colour ‘Carmelita’ (80% SW Merino, 20% Nylon) - 100 grams / 399 yards / 365 metres per skein.
Any fingering weight yarn should be suitable if you can get the correct gauge.

Needles

2.25mm - 9” / 23 cm circular, or your preferred needle type for small circumference knitting (use the needle size needed to achieve gauge).
You will need a spare circular needle which is 2.25mm or smaller for the Tubular Bind Off.

Notions

Row counter
2 stitch markers (1 for beginning of round and 1 additional)
Waste yarn (to hold thumb stitches)
Tapestry needle

Gauge

38 sts & 46 rows in a 4 x 4 inch square worked in the round following the hand chart, blocked.

Techniques

Knitting
Purling
Working in the round
Ribbing
Stranded colourwork
Working from a chart (the colourwork for this pattern is charted only)
Increasing (M1L and M1R)
Picking up stitches
Long Tail Tubular cast on
Backwards Loop cast on
Tubular bind off

Celestial Cowl Pattern

You may also like the Celestial Cowl Pattern, which the Celestial Mitts were designed to accompany.

Learn More

Read my blog post to find out more about the thinking behind the design of the Celestial Mitts.