Team USA Olympic KAL Mittens featuring Green Mountain Spinnery
What better way to celebrate and cheer on our Olympic athletes then watch the games while knitting with America's best yarns? So grab your needles and order your yarn and join us! Yarn: Green Mountain Spinnery Mountain Mohair ( 140 yards/128 m) 1 skein each of partiridge berry, edelweiss, and maritime or colors of choice Needles: 16 in circular and corresponding dpn's, or size needed to obtain gauge Us 7 (4.5mm) Finished Size: teen/small adult, large adult, Gauge: 21 sts/4 in, in color work st st Notes: -worked in the rnd Abbreviations: K= knit P= Purl Kfb= knit in front and back Using partridgeberry (red) co 36/ 42 sts Rnd 1-3: k each st around Rnd 4: purl each st around
Work rows repetitions of chart around, 1-16 of chart: Note: numbered rows are there for reference only not to be worked or incorporated into repetition.
Note: blank boxes worked in red, x is worked in white
| x | 16 | |||||
| X | X | X | 15 | |||
| x | X | x | x | 14 | ||
| x | x | x | 13 | |||
| x | 12 | |||||
| 11 | ||||||
| x | 10 | |||||
| x | X | x | 9 | |||
| x | x | x | X | 8 | ||
| x | x | x | 7 | |||
| x | x | 6 | ||||
| x | x | x | 5 | |||
| x | x | X | X | 4 | ||
| x | x | x | 3 | |||
| x | 2 | |||||
| 1 |
Next Clue: Rnd 1: Switch to blue, k each st around, blue is now your background color and white is still your contrast color when following chart
| 9 | ||||||
| x | 8 | |||||
| x | X | x | 7 | |||
| x | 6 | |||||
| 5 | ||||||
| x | 4 | |||||
| x | x | x | 3 | |||
| x | 2 |
After working rnd 2-5, work rnd 6 until last 2 sts in rnd, place marker, kfb in next 2 sts, At the same time, Continue to work colorwork chart above and thumb chart as below : Blank box= navy blue x= white contrast color y=kfb
| Y | x | Y | |||||||
| x | x | x | x | ||||||
| Y | x | Y | |||||||
| Y | Y | ||||||||
| x | |||||||||
| Y |
Next rnd: Continue to work colorwork chart, and when you get to 10 sts made for the thumb, sl to a st marker Work one more % repeat of colorwork and stop until you receive the next clue
