Your doll’s little fingers will be toasty warm for a stroll to her favorite local café in these tiny fair isle mittens. The stranded color-work pattern is very simple with short repeats, and creates the look of tiny roasted coffee beans. Don’t worry about losing one along the way- add a crochet chain strand to connect the mittens through her coat sleeves to prevent a lost mitten.

This pattern is classified as Advanced due to the tricky task of working in the round on such small needles, especially with colorwork. Other than the fair isle colorwork, there aren’t any advanced techniques used in the pattern, just basic increases and decreases.

The pattern includes charts, but also has the colorwork instructions written out so that it can be completed without the use of charts.

This PDF knitting pattern is designed to fit 18” dolls such as American Girl®.

Supplies Needed:

Needles
Size US 00 (1.75mm) or 000 (1.5mm) dpns (or size needed to obtain gauge). Please note that size 0 (2mm) or larger is likely too large and not recommended.

Yarn
Lace weight, approximately 4g/35yards/32mts of each color.
Yarn(s) shown:
• Debbie Bliss Rialto Lace (100% Merino Wool; 427yds (390m/50g): Black (C1), Silver (C2),1 ball each.
• Cascade Alpaca Lace (100% Alpaca; 437yds (400m/50g): Ecru (C1), Camel (C2), 1 skein each.
(Given for example purposes only, no affiliation or endorsement is implied).

Gauge
26 sts x 32 rows = 2″ (5 cm) square in Stockinette stitch with stranded colorwork after blocking.

Other Materials
2 small stitch holders (safety pins, paper clips, or scrap yarn work), tapestry needle, small crochet hook (for mitten keeper strand), blocking tools.

Measurements
• Finished wrist circumference (unstretched): 2 3/4” (7 cm)
• Finished length: 3” (7.5 cm)

Skill Level: Advanced