Convertible Mitts

Pattern by Diverkat

Do you want warm hands but still need func-tionality in your fingers? Then these mitts arefor you! This pattern is for DK weight yarn on4.0mm needles, and the pattern works best witha wool or mostly wool fibre. Acrylic can be usedas well, but avoid using yarns that have nonegative ease or stretch such as cotton, bamboo,or 100% silk - blends of these with wool arefine provided the wool content is more than60%. The pattern can be converted to other sizesusing your own hand measurements provided

you have knitted a swatch and gauged your work. Pattern sizes are written as S [M, L]but bear in mind that your dimensions may vary based on your gauge and knitting tension!

This project incorporates the following techniques: knit [K], purl [P], knit two to-gether [K2tog], pass slipped stitch over [psso], pick up stitches, long-tail cast on [CO],single loop CO, bind off [BO], knitting in the round, and seaming using kitchener stitch.This project is good for beginners who are looking to incorporate a number of techniquesinto one project.

For this project the following materials are needed: 100g DK yarn (200m, more forsize large); 4.0mm circular needles or double pointed needles [DPN]; an extra DPN orscrap yarn; stitch markers; tapestry needle; scissors; two buttons; sewing needle & thread;3.5mm crochet hook (optional)

Wrist

Using either DPNs or a circularneedle, CO 36 [40, 44] stitches us-ing a long-tail cast-on and join forknitting in the round; place a stitchmarker and K2, P2 for 16 rounds.

On the 17th round, K all stitchesfor 10 [10, 11] cm.

Palm

Using the scrap yarn or a DPN,place the next 4 [6, 8] stitches ontothe scrap yarn or the spare DPN - this

will be the gusset for the thumb.

Using a single loop CO, CO another4 [6, 6] stitches over the gap - youshould have 36 [40, 42] and continueknitting in the round [K all stitches]for another 8 [8, 10] rounds. To fin-

ish the hand, K2, P2 for 12 [15, 15]rounds. Loosely BO using the stan-dard bind off or the stretchy bind offtechnique.

Thumb gusset

To finish the thumb, pick up thelive stitches and split them onto 2DPNS (or space them along the magicloop). Pick up the cast-on stitchesonto another DPN, as well as 2 morestitches between the top and bottomstitches - this should leave you witha total of 12 [16, 18] stitches for thethumb.

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K all stitches for 5 [6, 7] cm oruntil the thumb is 0.5cm from thetop of your thumb. K1, K2tog forone row; this will leave you with 8[11, 12] stitches. Cut yarn and us-ing the tapestry needle, thread theyarn through the live stitches, pullthe yarn so that the hole closes up,and bind it off on the inside of thethumb.

Mitten flap

Put on the fingerless glove thatyou have finished and make a fist; onthe back of your hand, roughly 1-2cmbelow your knuckles, pick up 16 [18,20] stitches from the back of the hand(see example below). Pick up onlyone side of the stitch (i.e. only the leftor only the right) and ensure that thestitches picked up are centred acrossthe back of the hand, so that the flapis not off-centre when pulled over thefingers. Make sure you do this onboth hands so you don’t end up withtwo left or two right mitts!

After picking up the stitches, use along-tailed CO to loosely CO 20 [20,24] stitches. Place a stitch markerand join the CO stitches to thestitches picked up along the back ofthe hand and K all stitches across theback of the hand. When you reachthe CO stitches (the palm-side of theflap), K2 P2 until you reach the backof the hand again. Continue to Kalong the back of the hand and K2

P2 along the palm-side of the flapfor 12 rows. The ribbing will allowenough stretch to pull the flap overyour fingers while wearing the mitts.

After 12 rows of ribbing on the palm-side of the flap, K all stitches in thefront and the back of the flap untilthe flap reaches 1cm from the top ofyour longest finger.

The flap should have 36 [38, 44]stitches at this stage; the two sidesneed to be divided in 2 along thefront/back sides so that the decreasesare evenly spaced, and the sides arelined up with what will be the sidesof your hand. Place a stitch marker atthese divisions, so that there are 18[19, 21] stitches on each side.

Decreasing & Binding off

NOTE: The stitch markers will notbe in the same place as the one whichmarks the beginning of the row; this isfine as we no longer need to mark thisplace so you can remove it.

Starting with the stitch marker atthe back of the hand:

[K1, psso, K to 3 st before nextmarker, K2tog, K1, slide marker]*

*repeat on the palm-side of the hand,and then repeat the entire sequencefor 4 [4, 5] more rows.

To bind off, use the kitchener stitchbind-off technique to get a seam-less mitt (an excellent youtube video

can be found HERE. Lining up thetwo needles so that your last knittedstitch is the last on the needle fur-thest from you, cut your yarn whileleaving a tail at least 30cm. Threadyour tapestry needle onto this tailand thread the tail purl-wise throughthe first stitch on the front needle,and then thread the tail knit-wisethrough the first stitch on the backneedle - do not remove any stitchesfrom the needles at this stage, as thisis the set-up. The rest of the BO goesas follows, using the tapestry needleto do the ’knitting’ and ’purling’ de-scribed:

[K through first stitch on front nee-dle, and remove. P through the nextstitch on the front needle. P throughthe first stitch on the back needle,and remove. K through the next stitchon the back needle.]*

*Repeat these steps until you haveone stitch left on the needle - threadthrough the final stitch and bind offsecurely. Don’t pull the thread tootightly through this BO as it will notlay flat.

Buttons & Finishing

Using your sewing needle andthread, attach the button to the topcentre of the mitten flap. Using thecrochet hook, crochet a single chain10 times (more or less, depending onhow large your button is) and attachit to the back of the wrist, where themitten flap button folds back to meetit. Secure the button first and test thebuttonhole, ensuring that it securesthe button but not so tight as to makeit impossible to unbutton the flap.

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NOTE: You can knit an i-cord in-stead of using a crochet hook, or sim-ply braid a small bit of your yarn for asimple button loop.

Using the darning needle, weavein your ends, and block out yourproject if you like. I hope you enjoyyour new mitts, and please give any

feedback to help improve this pat-tern! Thanks for your support andyour time. Happy knitting! - Diverkat

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