Have you ever played with the loop st? While I have played with it before, I had never designed anything. I decided that I needed to create something a little playful for the upcoming season.

I felt that all the would be Gnomes and Santas out there might appreciate a new look! Once the hat was knit the mittens just sort of knit themselves! LOL!

Link - blog post with photo tutorial on the loop stitch

Create a little whimsey to celebrate the Fall and Christmas Season. Choose to knit Jingle with a white brim and a red body and a Santa hat is made or knit it as shown for a more vintage feel to the season.

The mittens have created a classic style with shaped, grafted tops and inserted after thought thumbs.

Hat and small/medium mittens can be knit as shown from 1 hank of each colour of Eco Shetland Worsted. There is enough yardage to knit the hat and the medium/large mittens, but the colours will have to shift.

Materials: 3.75mm US #5 16 in circs, 4.5mm US #7 16 in circs and dpn’s, 100 grs of each colour in a worsted weight yarn. Sample hat was worked with Eco Shetland Worsted (if using only two colours 100grs of yarn for loop st and 150 grs for the body of the hat), 6 jingle bells, markers and the regular notions.

Mittens: Small/mediium, 75 to 80 grs mixed colour yardage and Medium/large, 90 to 95 grs mixed colour yardage.

Gauge: 20 sts to 4 inches over the stranded pattern after a light blocking.

Size: One size for the hat, average adult. Mitten sizes small/medium and medium/large

Colour patterning are fully charted with minimal written instructions.

There is a photo tutorial included for the afterthought thumbs.

And full grafting instructions for the tops of the mittens.

The loops can be cut and brushed for a more natural furry look.