Dear Elizabeth Fingerless Mitts by Sarah L Kelly

Dear Elizabeth Fingerless Mitts

Knitting
January 2025
Les Laines Biscotte Yarns, PatricKnits Merica
Fingering (14 wpi) ?
32 stitches and 36.5 rows = 4 inches
in Stockinette stitch in the round, after blocking
US 2½ - 3.0 mm
275 - 300 yards (251 - 274 m)
one size
English

Materials
Yarn: Les Laines Biscotte Yarns, PatricKnits Merica
(100% American-grown merino Rambouillet wool), 450 yd (411 m)/100 g, fingering weight: 178 yd (163 m) of Vanille (MC); 114 yd (104 m) of Slate Blue (CC)

Needles: size 2½ (3 mm) set of double-pointed (dpns) or size needed to obtain gauge. (The mitts were worked using a 9” (22.5 cm) circular needle for the body of the mitts and dpns for the thumb)

Notions: Markers (m): 3 (one in a distinctive color for
beginning of round)
Waste yarn or stitch holder for thumb stitches
Tapestry needle

Gauge: 32 sts × 36½ rnds = 4” (10.2 cm) in stockinette
colorwork in the round, after blocking.

Finished Size: 8” (20.5 cm) hand circumference
and 9½“ (24 cm) long, after blocking.