Started your Christmas knitting yet? Through Friday, November 26, I’m offering 30% off these four popular patterns for easy fair isle mitts. These stranded mittens are so easy, you can knit all four patterns in time for Christmas! Just hop on over to my Ravelry shop and enter the coupon code STRANDED4 at checkout. These mittens are worked in simple two-color motifs that quickly create eye-catching, gift-worthy projects. They’re awesome stash busters too!
IBEX VALLEY
The Ibex Valley Mittens honor the prairies of northern Canada with pictorial stranded motifs that show tiny plants under the snow that then “grow” above ground toward the sun. Worked in rustic yarn, these toasty woolen mittens are as practical as they are charming. They’re lined in a rich red that calls to mind cozy flannel, ripe apples, falling maple leaves, and glowing hearth fires.
These super toasty mittens are worked in time-honored Jamieson & Smith Spindrift, straight from Shetland. This rustic yarn has been a cornerstone of color work knitting for at least 100 years. It is toothy, a little scratchy, and just perfect for stranded knitting. The color range is enormous and it is put up in small-ish quantities so you’re not on the hook for large amounts of contrasting colors.
TRUE NORTH
Snowflakes falling on piney woods, pick-up hockey on frozen ponds, hot chocolate and crackling fires are all recalled in the new True North Mittens. Whimsical and retro with a distinctly Canadian vibe, True North combines simple stranded knitting with smooth fields of stockinette and easy shaping to create a perfect first fair isle project.
Of course, you can knit the True North mittens in any DK weight yarn, but the silky-soft tweedy texture of Knit Picks City Tweed really looks like it’s snowing! Best thing about these easy fair isle mitts? These mittens have a mate! The matching TRUE NORTH HAT is also available on Ravelry.
SACKETS HARBOR
During my summer sojourns, Sackets Harbor is the first signpost once I’ve left the interstate. It’s a quiet gem, the first leg of the Seaway Trail, and offers gorgeous, cool Lake Ontario vistas. It has a slightly retro vibe with roadside bars and cafes closed years ago by the building of I-81. I love it, and I often fantasize about how it must look in the off-season, foggy and damp with big fat snowflakes falling on icy waters. That’s my inspiration for the Sackets Harbor Mittens.
These easy fair isle mitts for men and women, are a simple stranded knitting project perfect for the first-time fair isle knitter. Love the Sackets Harbor motif? Why not make it a set and knit the Sackets Harbor hat too? Hat and mittens can be worked in any worsted weight yarn. Try high contrast shades for a more pronounced fair isle pattern.
HAY BAY
Once that nip creeps into the air, I get the urge to do stranded color work. There’s something about having both hands buried in fluffy softness and watching the pattern magically emerge that is so very satisfying. The Hay Bay mittens feature a classic diamond and chevron motif with delicate falling snow. Beginning with classic Latvian braid and continuing with a simple two-color pattern, Hay Bay is just challenging enough to keep you engaged.
You’ll have a pair of easy fair isle mitts in no time working in cozy worsted weight yarn. The thumb is fully fashioned with a gusset and easy shaping makes a for nice rounded top. Choose two favorite colors and get going! You’ll have a pair by Monday. Craving a little more Hay Bay? There’s a matching Hay Bay hat!
I hope you’ll enjoy these easy fair isle mitts! Impress your friends and family with some simple, heartfelt gifts!
