MEN’S KNITTED MITTENS

(Courtesy of Columbia Yarns)

1½ Hanks of Columbia Spanish Yarn

4 Steel Needles No. 12

Cast on 51 stitches, 18 on each of 2 needles, 15 on the 3d, knit 2, purl 2, for 3½ inches for the wrist; then knit plain for 1 inch, or 9 times around. Shift the stitches so that you have 17 on each needle and begin the thumb where the end of your yarn should start. Knit 1, increase as follows (insert the needle in the stitch, make a stitch in back of same stitch and make another stitch, now slip the stitch off the needle, this gives you 2 stitches in 1).

Knit plain until you come to last 2 stitches. On 3d needle, increase 1 and knit last one then knit round once, widening 1 stitch each side, until 24 stitches added for the thumb being careful always to make an extra stitch in the one you last made. When you have 24 stitches, knit one round until you come to where the thumb stitches begin; tie the 24 stitches on a string to hold until the finger part is done. Cast on 10 stitches on the needle where the yarn is, and knit once around. On the next round narrow one stitch at the beginning and end of the 10 stitches; do this for 5 rounds till you have again 17 stitches on each needle. The object of the 10 extra stitches is to form a gore. Knit plain for 3½ inches, begin to narrow, knit 2 together at beginning and end of each needle for 1 round. Knit a round plain, then a narrowing round, so on alternately until 2 stitches are remaining on each needle, break off your yarn. Leave the end long enough to thread a needle and draw through 6 stitches and fasten securely on wrong side. Now take the 24 stitches of the thumb and the 10 of the gore and put 18 stitches on one needle (10 of the gore and 4 on each side of it) and 8 on each of the other 2 needles. Knit 1 round plain. Then for each succeeding round, till the gore is gone, narrow 1 stitch at the beginning and end of the 10. Knit plain around for 1¾ inches and narrow as in the finger part. Make other mitten to correspond.