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Ornäs Hat and Mitts
Botanical colourwork beanie and fingerless mitts
£6.00
- Sport weight yarn
- Also available on Ravelry
A coordinating set of colourwork hat and fingerless mitts inspired by nature. Showing how effective just two colours can be, these fun projects are ideal for new colourwork knitters. Ornäs is great value with both the hat and mitts included.
The mitts are worked from the ribbed cuff at the knuckles up to the wrist. This long cuff can be work folded back when you need to use your fingers or unfolded for extra warmth. The mitts feature the same stitch patterns as the hat and a thumb worked by binding off and then casting on stitches on the following round. More stitches are cast on than bound off and the additional stitches are decreased in a single column that creates a diagonal line following the life line on the palm. The mitts are finished with garter stitch cuffs and stitches are picked up around the opening left for the thumb which is also worked in stranded colourwork.
The Ornäsbjork is a type of silver birch that’s the national tree of Sweden. The colourwork patterns are inspired not by the iconic silhouettes of birch trees in winter but by their details: the textures and shapes of their catkins, trunks and leaves.
Details
Gauge
27 stitches and 30 rows = 4 inches in colourwork in the round
Sizing
Available in two sizes: small and large.
Hat
Finished circumference: 19[21½]” / 48[54.5]cm.
Finished length: 71/2[8¼]” / 19[20.5]cm at centre front
Mitts
Finished circumference at knuckles: 7[8¼]” / 17.5[20.5]cm
Finished length: 13½” / 34cm with ribbing unfolded
Shown in size small.
Stranded Colourwork Basics course
Learn more
Learn all of the skills you need to make Ornäs Hat and Mitts with our beginner colourwork course. The Stranded Colourwork Basics course is a 4 week self-guided online knitting course, with continued access to the course so that you can return to each chapter for a refresher, again and again, whenever you need.
Supplies
Yarn
Heavy fingering / sport weight wool yarn.
Green and grey set shown in Rauma Finullgarn (100% Norwegian wool, 191 yds / 175m, 1.76oz / 50g)
Colour A: 498
Colour B: 403
Brown set shown in Skein Queen Ullvärme (100% Swedish wool, 330 yds / 300m, 3.53oz / 100g)
Colour A: Hornbean
Colour B: Silver Birch
Needles and notions
US 5 / 3.75mm 16” / 40cm circular and
dpns or preferred needles for working
small circumferences in the rnd
Yardage
Hat
105[110] yds / 95[100]m of colour A
65[70] yds / 60[65]m of colour B
Mitts
170[190] yds / 155[175]m of colour A
125[140]yds / 115[130]m of colour B
"It's better not to make mittens in a hurry… Let's make them in May; let's take our time over them; let's venture into new approaches and designs; let's enjoy them." "A good summer project is a bevy of hats." Elizabeth Zimmermann's Knitters Almanac, for the months of May and June.
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