Revisiting French Mariniere Mitts by Anne Tremolieres

Revisiting French Mariniere Mitts

Knitting
December 2020
Fingering (14 wpi) ?
28 stitches and 36 rows = 4 inches
in Stockinette Stitch
US 1½ - 2.5 mm
440 yards (402 m)
Woman’s S
English

The striped top is an iconic element of French fashion. I kept in mind some of its characteristics: colors, white-stripe height being twice the blue, and used a French yarn. But I wanted to play with stripes, to have opposing lines going in perpendicular directions and soften it with a diagonal seam. My purpose was also to smoothly integrate the thumb and the cuff and give the feeling that the hand rises from it.