Spring Make-It-Now 2021

Our Spring ‘21 Make It Now collection features stitch textures -- mesh, cables, seed, eyelets, and knit-purl combinations in embossed relief -- in light fabrics and soft colors that highlight March’s transitional weather.

As March is also Women’s History Month, the pattern names nod to women who’ve won the Nobel Prize: Grazia Deledda (Literature, 1926), Emmanuelle Charpentier (Chemistry, 2020), Shirin Ebadi (Peace, 2003), Gertrude Elion (Medicine, 1988), Ada Yonath (Chemistry, 2009), and Alice Munro (Literature, 2013).

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The cuff of the Munro Mitts is worked back and forth in rows. Then the ends of the strip are brought together and the body stitches begin along one long edge. A simple pattern stitch of alternating half-double crochet and chain stitches flows easily around a finish-free thumb.

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FINISHED SIZE
8½” hand circumference and 8” long

MATERIALS
Manos del Uruguay FINO (70% extrafine merino wool, 30% silk; approx. 490 yds/100 g): 1 sk. Shown in 408 Crystal Goblet.

US H-8/5mm crochet hook, or size needed to obtain gauge
Removable marker
Tapestry needle

GAUGE
7 hdc, ch 1 units and 18 rnds = 3”/7.5cm in pattern from hand.

NOTES
These directions are written using American crochet terms.

Both mitts are the identical and can be worn on either hand.

The cuff is worked in rows, then the hand is worked upwards in the round from the selvedge of the cuff to the upper edge.

For the hand pattern, each half double crochet stitch (hdc) is worked around the chain stitch from the round below and into the stitch 2 rounds below, encircling the chain stitch. Each chain stitch is worked across the top of a half double crochet stitch from the round below.