Short Wave Mitts (DK Version)

I knitted this DK version of the Short Wave Mitts to match a cowl I had made earlier - pinching the idea of inversing the colours from another knitter on Ravelry.




This work by Knitting and so on is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Materials:

• a total about 45 grams of DK weight yarn  (in two colours)
• 4.5 mm dpns

Here are the modifications to the original pattern:

Thumb panel:

• CO7 in MC
• do increase (to widen thumb panel) in rows 16 and 26
• do thumb increases in rows 32, 34, 36, 38 - move 11 sts to scrap yarn in row 40
• do decrease (to narrow thumb panel) in row 47
• BO thumb panel in row 58

Main Part:

• Pick up 30 sts from side => 31 sts on needles
• When first knitting a row down the side: k3 pm k8 pm k8pm k8 pm k4 (to mark the beginnings and endings of sections - the sections are 8 sts wide).
• Knit MC rows in stockinette stitch (i.e. k on RS, p on WS)
• There are only 4 down sections and 4 up sections

Thumb:

• for thumb pick up 3 sts from above gusset
• knit 4 rounds of garter stitch (i.e k 1 round, p 1 round) and BO