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Grey Islands
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Simple garter rib mitts with thumb gussets. Both mitts are the same – no right and left. Length is approximately 7”.
The ferry to Argentia on the Avalon Peninsula arrived on a grey morning. After seeing only water and thick fog since daylight, suddenly mist-shrouded islands appreared. After the ferry, our first stop was at Cape St. Mary’s Ecological Reserve, where we saw more fog-shrouded islands covered in birds and grassy cliffs covered in sheep :)
Our Newfoundland trip inspired a collection of patterns - Northward.
Skills required
• Long-tail cast-on
• Increasing
• Decreasing
A note about needles:
I knit the mitts using 2 circulars (my personal favorite method for small circumferences) and used a second set to knit the thumbs while the hand was still on the needles. This gave me a nice thumb gusset with no holes and no mid-knit cast-on. I’ve also used this method using 3 dpns for the thumb.
Sample knit in Rowan Pure Wool Superwash Worsted in Moonstone.

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- First published: September 2014
- Page created: September 19, 2014
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