There’s the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.
– Sherlock Holmes

Wear these delicate fingerless mitts to a crime scene, a graveyard, or out for tea and crumpets. The smooth stockinette body is set off by the baroquely textured cuff. The cuff is worked flat; the body and thumb are worked in the round. The cuff pattern is charted; full written translation of the chart is provided.

Finished Size: approx 7.5” long and 6.5” circumference; designed to be worn with 0.5-1” negative ease

Yarn: A Hundred Ravens Llyr 55% BFL, 45% silk; 438 yards/100g skein; 1 skein “A Study in Scarlet”; sample used about 200 yards

Gauge: 38 sts and 44 rows = 4” in stockinette stitch

Tools: #2/2.75 mm needle, stitch markers, waste yarn