Hedda Selbu Style Half-Mitts Knitting Pattern

Hedda Half-Mitts are worked with construction and patterning developed and traditionally used for mittens and gloves in Selbu, Norway. Hedda includes a women’s cuff, a goat horn rose, coffee beans, dancers (or goblins) and a patterned palm. Many thanks to Anne Bårdsgård for her book, Selbu Mittens, published by Trafalgar Square Books of North Pomfret, Vermont. Pattern requires the following skills: working in the round in small circumferences, increasing and decreasing, chart-reading, stranded knitting in two colors.

Sizes & Finished Measurements

Small(Medium, Large); S(M, L) 

Circumference: 8 1/2”/22cm(9”/23cm, 9 1/2”/24cm)

Approximate Length: 8 1/4”/21cm(8 1/4”/21cm, 8 1/4”/21cm)

The Hedda Half-Mitts are intended to be worn with approximately 0”/0cm ease in circumference. Measure around the palm and back of dominate hand, just below the knuckles, excluding thumb.

Yarn

RAUMA FINULL PT2 (100% Norwegian Wool, 190yds/175m per 50g ball)

Size S: MC: 144yds/132m, 38g, CC: 87yds/80m, 23g

Size M: MC: 160yds/146m, 42g, CC: 91yds/83m, 24g

Size L: MC: 175yds/160m, 46g, CC: 95yds/87m, 25g

Needles

US 1/2.25mm and US 0/2.00mm: as preferred for working small circumferences in the round, dpns or circular. Adjust needle size if necessary to obtain the correct gauge.

Notions

Three stitch markers; smooth contrasting color waste yarn; tapestry needle

Gauge

31 stitches and 31 rounds in stranded two-color stockinette stitch = 4”/10cm on US 1/2.25mm needles.