ANGORA BABY MITTENS- PATTERN OF 1913

ANGORA BABY MITTENS- PATTERN OF 1913

Designed by Helen Marvin 

The baby mittens, unlike most Angora work, are knitted very tightly. Two pairs of No 20 steel knitting needles are used and less than one ounce of the Angora. 

The mittens illustrated, will fit a child from one to two years, but other sizes may be made by adding to or deducting from the stitches cast on as the size may require, and also changing the length of thumb and hand, as set down in the directions. 

 For the size illustrated, cast forty-four stitches on three needles, join in a round, and knit two, purl two, for two inches, for the wrist. Knit three rounds plain, then begin the thumb gore, knitting it in an unusual and most simple manner, as follows;

Increase in the first stitch of the round, knit three, increase in the next stitch, and knit plain to end of round. 

The three stitches between the increasing are the three stitches running down at the outside of the thumb, and the increasings always are done at either side of these three stitches.

Knit one round plain, and again make an increased round, and alternate these two rounds until five stitches have been added at either side of the three center stitches, or, in another size, the final round is wide enough for hand at the upper thumb. Make eight rounds without increasing, work the thumb stitches once more and run them on to a thread. 

For the hand continue as follows:

Knit across the stitches on the needles, and at the end of the round cast on three stitches and join. Knit plain, round after round for one and one-half inches, or until the work is long enough to reach to the tip of the small finger. On the next round narrow at either side of the three stitches cast on below the thumb, and also at either side of the three center stitches at the back of the hand. Knit three rounds without narrowing, again make a narrowed round, and do this until six stitches remain. Draw the thread through these stitches, and fasten securely on the wrong side.

Take the thumb stitches on two needles, and with another needle pick up three stitches on the three stitches cast on for the lower hand. On these sixteen stitches knit plain for one and one-fourth inches, or for the length necessary for the thumb, draw the thread through all the stitches, and fasten securely. The second mitten is made exactly like the first.

 

REFERENCES:

Ladies Home Companion 1913