Winter Twilight Mitts

So pretty!

I cannot believe how lovely these are! And free! How kind of you!  Many thanks.

ooo' I like. I'm gonna have to make myself a pair of these. I wouldn't even change the colors.

These almost make me look forward to cold weather again!

Thanks! These have landed near the top of my to do list.

Thank you...these are glorious ! I hope it is cold and snowy next week (as if THAT is even a possibility), so I can get inspired to knit them NOW !

These are lovely.  I haven't done a lot of stranded colorwork.  How much flex does it have?  Will it be less forgiving of sizing errors or gauge wobbles?

Very pretty mitts! It must be fine yarn that is called for and I'm wondering about substitutions. Would you substitute a fingering weight or sport weight? I don't knit a lot and I also have a question about the dpn. I assume the whole project is worked with dpn? When I first looked at needles required, I thought regular needles were required as well as dpn. That's not correct, is it.

Approx ow much of each skein do you really use? I can't imagine 400 yds from each.

Lovely, a really pretty colourwork mitt! Thank you.

As lovely as these are, can we please have some full glove (or at least mitten) patterns at least as often as all these mitt patterns? Mitts just make me feel silly.

Love the Mits Keep up the great work!!!!!!

I just have to have these, as soon as my sisters see them they'll want them too!

Re: Francesca's thought on gloves or mittens...would be simple to turn these into mittens. Skip the black band and knit with the purple to extend the twilight sky above the tree branches. Then decrease as you would for the tip of any mitten. You could continue branches, or not, to do the same for the thumb. A little more complicated to make gloves but doable. You'd have to consider where the finger divides would start for your hand. I'd chart gloves before you started knitting to keep on track. I wouldn't recommend this for a beginner but anybody with experience who enjoys a bit of a challenge should go for it. I'm heading out to the yarn store!

Any hints on the best way to make these bigger for a man? One of the editors I work with always has cold hands in the winter in our office (well, we all do, actually). I would do up the colors more subtly or perhaps skip the design altogher and just use a tweedy wool.

Thanks.

Nummers, I want to make a pair and I usually refrain from using anyone else's patterns, but my Halloween loving daughter would absolutely love them

6" hand circumference is really small. I have an 8" hand circumference, which I don't think is so unusual. Any advice on how to make them larger??

Luv the mitts!  Am not a computer genius and wonder why when I download the pattern, all of the squares on the pattern grid are totally blank!!  Any advice?  These are sooooo gorgeous and a perfect gift for my best friend.

Eliza and PamelaV, I'm no expert, but you might be able to use a heavier gauge yarn and go up a needle size or two to make the mitts larger (just magnify the pattern basically), and you could probably figure out how to alter the length if it became too long by doing this magnification.

I wish you would include the wpi on these downloaded patterns, so I can more easily substitute a yarn I can afford.  I love Cashmere - anybody want to GIVE it to me? Otherwise, I need to substitute.

Karen D.

The Twilight Mitts are really beautiful.  I live in California now, but I love winter and these are perfect reminders of the black winter trees of Ohio.  I'm going to make them for my daughters-in-law (cold hands in Illinois).  I looked at these just yesterday and decided I should buy the pattern.  Don't worry, I'll buy another instead, so many pretty ones.  Thank you.

Karen D.

Tabitha-The fabric will be firmer, but it will have flex if you are careful to keep the yarn a little loose when you change colors.  

I haven't looked at the instructions yet, but these will use a good bit of yarn because usually in color stranded knitting the color not being knit is carried across the back of the stitches.  It makes the fabric thicker and warmer.

I love these mittens , but can't seem to download them . I have tried to save  it and tried to open it .

Please help me  on why I can't  download them

I haven't yet attempted to make fingerless mitts, mittens or gloves, as I feel my skills are still at the beginner's level.  But, I miust say, I am going to attempt to make these.  Just wanted to let you know these are quite possibly the most beautiful fingerless mitts/gloves I've ever seen!  Simply exquisite and a work of art, in my humble opinion!

Cena5280  - I can see the different colored squares on the graph, so the pattern is working - perhaps you need to upgrade your Adobe Acrobat?

How lovely!  Remind me of stained glass windows in a way!  Very nice.  Thanks for another treasure to add to my trove.  

Solveigh

I was wondering HOW you do it. Like, how do you knit colorwork from a chart? Is it the same as how you make stripes, or is it something like Stranded Color or Intarsia (which I do not know how to do - yet if I need to learn for this). It would be really helpful if someone cleared this up. Thanx!

These are so gorgeous. Can't wait to make them!

JUST BEAUTIFUL!! LOVE THESE. HOWEVER I'M A SLIGHTLY NEW KNITTER AND NOT SURE IF I'M SUPPOSE TO "CARRY" THE UNUSED YARN ACROSS THE BACK OF THE WORK OR USE THE "STRANDING METHOD" (KNITTING BOTH COLORS AS YOU GO).  WOULD LOVE TO MAKE THESE BUT WOULD REALLY LIKE SOME ANSWERS.  THANKS FOR  THE FREE PATTERN.

For those (like me) who know they'd certainly mess up trying to read the chart backwards for the second mitt, here's a tip.  If you copy the chart to your clipboard (click on the little camera in Adobe, select the chart, and hit copy) you can paste it to a Publisher document and flip it (go Arrange in the menue and select flip horizontal).  This will create a mirror image.

Good luck!  I just bought some Malabrigo  - Pearl Ten 69 and Emerald 135.  This is the softest wool!  It's not cashmere, but I love how it feels.  And you can't beat the price ($11.00 for a 470 yard skein) Cant wait to cast on.

Thanks a ton for this pattern!!

i have a question, is there a chance that i can make this pattern in a larger weight yarn?

I have to make these fingerless mittens!

Thanks so much... just beautiful..