The Emperor's New Mitts
designed by Louise Zass-Bangham, !st April 2012 These Mitts were designed in response to a challenge on the Fingerless Gloves Fanatics Forum for the April 2012KAL. This spectacular pattern for the Emperor involves all possible knitting techniques known to man or woman. It includes cables, bobbles, stripes, entrelac, intarsia, mock cables, twisted stitches, nupps, beading, log cabin, buttons and embroidery. You will need to be confident atreadingchartsforlace and fairisle.You will need to be adept at knitting in the round at a very finegauge.
Size
Four sizes are given to fit Baby, Child, Woman, Man
Materials
·Rumplestiltskin 100% pure spun gold, 10,000m per 25g skein. 1 skein. ·Rumplestiltskin 100% pure spun white gold, small amount for stripes & colourwork ·Unicorn 100% gold rainbow yarn, small amount ·Jason's gold fun fur/eyelash yarn, small amount ·3,000 gold beads ·Set 0.5mm/US 8/0 double pointed needles ·Stitch markers, cable needle, crochet hook for placingbeads
Yarn Alternatives: If the pure spun gold is out of your budget, substitute straw instead, also available from Miller's Daughter Enterprises.
Tension
100 sts x 136 rows to 10cm/4" square over st st
Tips You may find a magnifying glass useful.
To make
About the designer
Louise loves designing pieces that are fun to knit and look great. She has a passion for colour, form and fit. Read her blog at inspirationknits.wordpress.com or find more of her work on www.ravelry.com designer list as Louise Zass-Bangham. Louise Zass-Bangham April 2012 inspiration@zass-bangham.com
