One day, for fun, I decided to combine lace, ruffles, a texture pattern and bobbles all in a single pattern…and it worked! The result is an adorable little set which will keep a baby’s extremities warm, while looking making them look absolutely darling at the same time. You can make a matching bonnet and booties in addition to these scratch mitts.

• matching bonnet
• matching booties

NOTE: The instructions for these mittens in the self-published booklet produce a shorter mitten than the instructions originally published in Knit Now. (I revised the pattern slightly for the booklet because I felt the original directions I gave made mittens that would be too long.) However, the booklet contains instructions on how to lengthen or shorten the mittens to taste.

Skills required

• knitting and purling
• working small circumferences in the round (i.e. DPNs, magic loop, or 2-circular methods)
• increasing and decreasing
• chart reading
• (optional; just makes the bobbles easier) knitting backwards

Size information

• 0-6 months: finished wrist circumference 7cm (unstretched), hand circumference 33cm, total height 11cm
• 6-12 months: finished wrist circumference 9.5cm (unstretched), hand circumference 33cm, total height 14cm

Yarn requirements

• 0-6 months: about 56 yards
• 6-12 months: about 80 yards

Other materials needed

• stitch marker

• (optional) two 44.5cm lengths of ribbon approximately 6mm wide