Baby it's cold outside, put on those mittens!

January 22nd  

My favourite mittens

Brrr, winter has arrived and I'm glad for it.  The days are crisp and cold and mostly the sky is that clear blue colour, hurrah.  But it does mean all of a sudden the fires are on constant, the heating is cranked up and when we venture outside we need to wrap up warm.  For me that means mittens and not gloves.  I feel they are much warmer when all the fingers are encapsulated in one area and not separated as gloves are.  In our home we have several mittens, many plain but a few patterned and these are my favourites.  Mittens are obviously easier to knit than gloves too, huge bonus.

I have never actually crocheted a full set of mittens but have made many a pair of fingerless mittens and wrist warmers, best give that a go...   The pattern that I have searched for and think looks simple enough to make is this one, as said I've not made it, but it's on my to do list... Crochet mitten pattern

I have however made crocheted fingerless mittens as mentioned and in case you wanted to make some, here is the pattern I used.  In fact I loved it so much, I made 3 one after the other... Puff stitch fingerless mittens

Unfortunately I cannot share with you the pattern for my absolute favourite knitted mitten pattern as it is a bought pattern from Rauma.no and it's in Norwegian, but thought I would show you my favourite pair... those in the close up with the Norwegian flag!

 

Just some of the mittens in our home...

To make the other traditional Norwegian knitted patterns this is a great pattern, free and in English... Norwegian knitted patterns Again this is not the pattern I followed but I've looked it over and it is very similar, hope you enjoy!

BUT and hold on to your hats, the very talented Christine over at Winwick mum fame, has designed her own mittens with a twist.  In fact they are so genius that I am definitely going to be making a pair this year.  Her tutorials are brilliant, did you follow her sock making tutorial, so clear and easy to follow and understand and I have no doubt this will be just the same.  Why are her mittens so great?  She has split them in two so you can just whip the tops off to take photos, go foraging, answer the phone and a million other things without getting your hands too cold, just take a look...

Christine's genius split mitten design!
This is Christine's photo from her blog post

Fancy giving them a try, here is her free pattern... Split mittens pattern

If the four above patterns do not take your fancy or time is short, isn't it always?!?!  Then I did make an uber quick pair of wrist warmers last year for my sister, you could make these in a couple of hours... Quick make wrist warmers and if you scroll further down on the post you will find my daughter's wonderful flapjack recipe too, bonus!

Sharing 5 patterns with you today to keep you warm if you are in the northern hemisphere,

those in the south, this post was here to attempt to cool you off a tad

from the heat you are experiencing you lucky lot!

 

Joining in as always on a Friday with Amy  for my 5 on Friday,

pop over and see what everyone else is sharing...

♥  Keep warm out there  ♥

 

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