How knitting can help heal the hole in your heart:
The Hole Inside gives a taste of unrequited love from an independent, travelling heroine who never forgets her knitting. While on a business trip, she encounters women who invite her to their knitting group. Settle into a coffee, a town filled with college students, and an unsettling surprise from the past that calls for some escape with needles and yarn.

This story pairs with a stranded mitten pattern in 7 sizes. Start with 2-4 years for your nearest toddler and complete right up to the unbelievably XXL hands of your Valentine, this is one flexible pattern that has you covered.

This warm mitt works up quickly in two colors, with size 5(3.75mm) and 8(5mm) double pointed needles at 5.5 stitches to the inch. Any worsted or aran weight yarn that works to gauge is a good match; yardage varies according to mitten size chosen. This is a pattern for an advanced beginner or intermediate knitter—with simple stranded knitting, this is perfect for the mitten knitter who is new to stranded knitting or for the stranded knitting knitter who is new to mitten patterns.

This is a whole new kind of knitting pattern….one that comes with a story attached! The Yarn Spinner Story + Pattern line allows readers who knit (or knitters who read) two pleasures at once. Enjoy a piece of short fiction, accompanied by a useful pattern that stands on its own. This downloadable luxury offers a sweet combination for thinking knitters, particularly ones using a tablet or smartphone.

Size & Finished Measurements:
Sizes 2–4 years (6–8 years, Child’s Large/Women’s Small, Women’s Medium/Men’s Small, Women’s Large/Men’s Medium, Men’s L/XL, Men’s XXL)
5½(6½, 7¼, 8⅓, 9, 10⅛, 11)“/14(16,18, 21, 22.5, 25.5, 27.5)cm circumference

Yarn Amounts:
Main Color (MC): Approximately 32(55, 76, 93, 104, 120, 131) yards/30(50, 70, 85, 95, 110, 120) meters of worsted or aran weight yarn that knits to gauge

Contrasting Color (CC): Approximately 32(55, 76, 93, 104, 120, 131) yards/30(50, 70, 85, 95, 110, 120) meters of worsted or aran weight yarn that knits to gauge

Samples Used:
For Size 2–4:
MC: 1 skein Istex Létt Lopi (also called Reynolds Lite-Lopi), 100% wool, 109 yards (100m)/2.76 oz (50g) per skein, color 1410 orange
CC: 1 skein Istex Létt Lopi (also called Reynolds Lite-Lopi), 100% wool, 109 yards (100m)/2.76 oz (50g) per skein, color 9420 navy

For Size Women’s Small:
MC: 1 skein Istex Létt Lopi (also called Reynolds Lite-Lopi), 100% wool, 109 yards (100m)/2.76 oz (50g) per skein, color 0051 white
CC: 1 skein red handspun, 100% wool = roughly the equivalent of Létt Lopi color 9434 crimson red (dye lots vary)

For Size Men’s XXL:
MC: 1 skein Paton’s Classic Wool (also called Paton’s Classic Wool Worsted or Paton’s Classic Wool Merino), 100% wool, 210 yards (192m)/3.53 oz (100g) per skein, color 77222 Clover Leaf

CC: 1 skein Paton’s Classic Wool (also called Paton’s Classic Wool Worsted or Paton’s Classic Wool Merino), 100% wool, 210 yards (192m)/3.53 oz (100g) per skein, color 77115 New Denim